Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition
ISBN-10
0262510871
ISBN-13
9780262510875
Category
Computers
Pages
574
Language
English
Published
1996-07-25
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Gerald Jay Sussman, Harold Abelson

Description

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, 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 central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.

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