Subject: Re: Which book next for my son?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/07/05
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <8ju412$1pr5l$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Gary E. Bloom <geb@softworlds.com> wrote:
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| Aside from the six I mentioned -- Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer, Scheme
| & the Art of Programming, Simply Scheme, Schemer's Guide, and SICP -- are
| there any advanced Scheme based books that don't require math
| sophistication?
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Take a look at:

	<URL:http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/Lectures/Released/Book/>
	"How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing"
	Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi (Rice University)

This is a text intended for high school students, as part of Rice's
"TeachScheme!" project <URL:http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Teaching/Workshops/>.
The book is not available in a dead trees version yet [next year, from
MIT Press], but the whole thing's readable online now. [You might suggest
to your kid skipping over or skimming the Preface and the teacher's notes
at the beginning of each section if they get too deep, though personally I
think there's a lot of useful stuff in there, too.]


-Rob

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