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| Simply Scheme - 2nd Edition: Introducing Computer Science
Hardcover
Edition: 2
Author: Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright
Publisher: The MIT Press
Release Date: 1999-08-27
ISBN-10: 0262082810
ISBN-13: 9780262082815
List Price: $74.00
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This lively introduction to computer science and computer programming in Scheme is for non-computer science majors with a strong interest in the subject and for computer science majors who lack prior programming experience. The text allows the student to experience the computer as a tool for expressing ideas, not as a frustrating set of mathematical obstacles. This goal is supported by the use of Scheme, a modern dialect of Lisp, designed to emphasize symbolic programming.
A good conceptual extender
| Customer Rating: | I have been programming for many years in languages such as Assembler,C, C++ and Python. I found I had not many difficulties with getting the concepts of Assembler and C, but concerning C++ and Python there were many things in these languges which I was not able to use effectively, since I did not understand the concepts. That is where Simply Scheme is such a great book. It explains quickly and easily ideas such as recursion, vectors, trees and general symbolic programming. It also helps with terminology, giving names to things I had been doing for years, but had not defined.
I would suggest this book as a great step to those who can doing many things in lower level languages, but want to extend their effeciency. I do not think I would ever use the Scheme language as such, but I will certainly use what I have learned in this book for my programming. |
Weak
| Customer Rating: | | The extra star is for the excessive effort these guys had to put in for what they did. It was not very effective. The biggest problem of this book is that it's full of confusing explanations the designers hoped would be "heuristic." This problem permeates the work from start to finish. The use of the special commands by the authors, not part of standard scheme, makes very little sense in most classroom settings that teach Scheme in the hopes of teaching functional programming. The whole idea of functional programming is that you have a bare group of essential concepts AND commands, and work your way from there. I had the great misfortune of taking a class where we weren't allowed to use the specially designed scheme commands for this book, but still had to buy it. If you are in that predicament, the book is completely worthless. Furthermore, while I admire the author's desire to prepare people for SICP, their treatment of this task borders on arrogance. At one point they actually suggest that "SICP was designed for MIT students" and that the rest of us aren't worthy of it yet. Quite frankly for anybody willing to take the time, SICP is not as terrifying as these guys make it out to be. This is a weak book. |
Simpy Scheme
| Customer Rating: | | I read this book in preparation for a computer science cource (taught by one of it's authors). I chose the book because the course was taught in Scheme, and I had not encountered the language before. I must say that this is an excellent book. While it may use some non-standard extensions to the language, in general, it does a good job of teaching Scheme. I feel that after I read the book, I was thorougly prepared to read SICP, the main text in my comp sci course. The non-technical and sometimes humorous style made Simply Scheme an easy reading, and allowed me to concentrate on the concepts rather than the jargon. |
A book about programming - not about Scheme
| Customer Rating: | | "Simply Scheme" is certainly an excellent introductory book on programming in general. I bought it for learning Scheme, though, and was disappointed. Most of this book deals with Scheme extensions written by the authors - you have to load a library file to run them. Towards the end of the book, genuine Scheme features are introduced and their relations with the author's extensions are explained - but this was not enough to make me feel familiar with the Scheme language. The book is nicely written, and 100% recommended for beginning programmers, but not for people with programming experience who want to learn a new language. |
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