Com S 342 - Resources

Resources

This page provides information on some of the resources available for students in Com S 342. The page is organized as follows:

Miscellaneous Resources: about the course, Scheme, and programming languages.
Reserve List: A list of materials on reserve at the Library
Other Texts on Programming Languages: A list of other books of interest at the Library.

Miscellaneous Resources

The following are some links to various resources you may find useful about the course, Scheme, and programming languages.

Course Resources

Examples of Scheme code demonstrating various concepts, organized by topic, with links to files in the course's Scheme library.
zip file containing the course library. See the library web page for more information.
zip file containing all of the homeworks and their tests.
Web page for the book Essentials of Programming Languages (second edition), which includes links to the book's:
- Source code and examples.
- Errata.
The course documentation directory, including:
- The type notation used in the course (and the same in PDF format).
- Some tips for debugging with the Chez Scheme interpreter. (See the Chez Scheme User's Guide for more information.)
- Some tips for debugging with the SCM interpreter.
- A sample emacs customization file (.emacs).
Meeting outlines directory, containing outline files for the "lectures".
Lecture notes directory, containing strangely formatted notes for the "lectures". We recommend that students use the meeting outlines (above) instead.
The course bin directory, containing various shell scripts.
Fabric-painted T-shirts I may use in this course.

Scheme Resources

To see how to run Scheme, or how to run Scheme on your home computer, see the Running Scheme web page.

Richard Kelsey, et al., ed. Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme in:
- from schemers.org in HTML and PDF.
- from MIT in HTML and PostScript (compressed with gzip).
R. Kent Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language, Second edition, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
R. Kent Dybvig, The Chez Scheme User's Guide, Cadence Research Systems, 1998.
The SCM Scheme interepreter's home page
The Schemers Web Page.
The internet newsgroup for Scheme: comp.lang.scheme.
The Scheme home page.
Scheme interpreter for Palm OS.

Programming Language Resources

Functional programming in the real world by Phil Wadler.
Google's directory of programming languages.
Other programming language related links.

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Reserve List

To check out one of these (for a few hours), go to the Parks Library reserve desk. Take along the call number and title, or look up Com S 342 there.

This list is divided into two sections: the required and recommended texts for the course.

Required and Recommended Texts

Required

Author	Friedman, Daniel P, et al.
Title	Essentials of programming languages
Edition	2nd ed.
Publisher	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; c2001.
Call Number	QA76.7 F73 2001

Author	Friedman, Daniel P., et al.
Title	The little Schemer
Edition	4th ed.
Publisher	Cambridge : MIT Press, c1996.
Call Number	QA76.73 S34 F75 1996

Other Texts on Programming Languages

The following include some other books that treat programming langauges and a book that explains programming (in Scheme) in different ways. These are not on reserve, but you may wish to have a look at them anyway.

Programming Languages

Author	Kamin, Samuel N.
Title	Programming languages: an interpreter-based approach
Edition	n/a
Publisher	Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1990.
Call Number	QA76.7 K35 1990

Author	Watt, David A. (David Anthony)
Title	Programming language concepts and paradigms
Publisher	New York : Prentice Hall, 1990.
Call Number	QA76.7 W39 1990

Scheme Programming

Author	Springer, George, 1924-
Title	Scheme and the art of programming
Edition	MIT Press ed.
Publisher	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; New York : McGraw-Hill, c1989.
Call Number	QA76.6 S686 1989