This lively introduction to computer science and computer programming in Scheme is for non-computer science majors with a strong interest in the subject and for computer science majors who lack prior programming experience. The text allows the student to experience the computer as a tool for expressing ideas, not as a frustrating set of mathematical obstacles. This goal is supported by the use of Scheme, a modern dialect of Lisp, designed to emphasize symbolic programming.
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Praise for the first edition"... a genuinely terrific introduction to programming and computerscience." Login"The authors have written a very user-friendly book. The sentences andthe programs are short; the explanations are step-by-step." Choice
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A great book to start you off with Scheme, and functional programming. The approach is slightly different from most other Scheme introductory texts, and that makes this book an ideal sequel for all those students that were exposed to Logo as their first programming language. (By this I don't mean those that used turtle to draw nice shapes on the screen, but rather those that have read author's Logo books.) Brian Harvey starts off by introducing Logo procedures into Scheme (word, sentence, first, butfirst...), but don't let this mislead you into thinking that the book is trivial. Book slowly builds up to a spreadsheet and database projects. Full of interesting examples, and very witty. Five chapters on recursion are a gem.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A book about programming - not about Scheme
14 Mar 2000
By Martin Wilck
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"Simply Scheme" is certainly an excellent introductory book on programming in general. I bought it for learning Scheme, though, and was disappointed. Most of this book deals with Scheme extensions written by the authors - you have to load a library file to run them. Towards the end of the book, genuine Scheme features are introduced and their relations with the author's extensions are explained - but this was not enough to make me feel familiar with the Scheme language. The book is nicely written, and 100% recommended for beginning programmers, but not for people with programming experience who want to learn a new language.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great book to start you off with Scheme.
23 April 1999
By Hrvoje Blazevic
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Format:Hardcover
A great book to start you off with Scheme, and functional programming. The approach is slightly different from most other Scheme introductory texts, and that makes this book an ideal sequel for all those students that were exposed to Logo as their first programming language. (By this I don't mean those that used turtle to draw nice shapes on the screen, but rather those that have read author's Logo books.) Brian Harvey starts off by introducing Logo procedures into Scheme (word, sentence, first, butfirst...), but don't let this mislead you into thinking that the book is trivial. Book slowly builds up to a spreadsheet and database projects. Full of interesting examples, and very witty. Five chapters on recursion are a gem.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good conceptual extender
11 July 2005
By John Pane
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I have been programming for many years in languages such as Assembler,C, C++ and Python. I found I had not many difficulties with getting the concepts of Assembler and C, but concerning C++ and Python there were many things in these languges which I was not able to use effectively, since I did not understand the concepts. That is where Simply Scheme is such a great book. It explains quickly and easily ideas such as recursion, vectors, trees and general symbolic programming. It also helps with terminology, giving names to things I had been doing for years, but had not defined.
I would suggest this book as a great step to those who can doing many things in lower level languages, but want to extend their effeciency. I do not think I would ever use the Scheme language as such, but I will certainly use what I have learned in this book for my programming.
I would suggest this book as a great step to those who can doing many things in lower level languages, but want to extend their effeciency. I do not think I would ever use the Scheme language as such, but I will certainly use what I have learned in this book for my programming.
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