Scheme Resources

• Resources for PLT Scheme (which we'll be using):
  • download DrScheme (for language, select "Pretty Big")
  • PLT Scheme guide
  • A fun intro to PLT Scheme using graphics
  • PLT Scheme reference (more concise than the guide)

• R5RS (the Standard)

• Scheme notes written by Alan Borning:
  • Basics
  • I/O
  • Eval and Apply
  • Side Effects and Structs
  • Simulating Objects in Scheme
  • Additional Topics

• The textbook for MIT's intro course 6.001: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (a.k.a. the wizard book)

• Videotapes of Abelson and Sussman teaching MIT's 6.001

• How to Design Programs, an intro textbook by Matthias Felleisen who has been teaching functional programming for decades

• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, another intro Scheme book

• An Introduction To Scheme and Its Implementation, YASIB (yet another Scheme intro book)

• Some interesting cartoons about Lisp: 1, 2, 3.