Com S 342 - Principles of Programming Languages

Resources

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

1. Miscellaneous Resources: about the course, Scheme, and programming languages.
2. Reserve List: A list of materials on reserve at the Library
3. 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

• 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:
  • examples of Scheme code demonstrating various concepts, organized by topic.
  • The type notation used in the course (and the same in PDF format).
  • 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.
• 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

Recommended

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

Scheme Programming

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Last modified Monday, January 12, 2004.