Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Hal Abelson is a member of the IEEE and the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He founded Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a co-chair of the MIT Council on Educational Technology. Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering Gerald Jay Sussman teaches at MIT. He is the author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, one of the best books on functional programming.

Over the last decade, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a significant impact on computer science curricula. This long-awaited revision includes changes to the entire text. Most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, have new implementations, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the importance of various approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming with lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order graphics procedures and stream processing applications in numerical programming, as well as many new exercises. Furthermore, all of the programs have been rewritten to run in any IEEE-compliant Scheme implementation.

Author: Gerald Jay Sussman, Harold Abelson and Julie Sussman

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