Fundamentals of Computer Science

CS 2500, Spring 2012

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Required Reading

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs MIT Press, 2001


Recommended Readings

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs, Second Edition 2011

Felleisen, Findler, Fisler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme 2008

Friedman, Felleisen The Little Schemer: Fourth Edition MIT Press, 1996
An alternative introduction to recursive programming

Friedman, Felleisen The Seasoned Schemer MIT Press, 1996
More on functional and imperative programming

Felleisen, Friedman A Little Java, A Few Patterns MIT Press, 1998
Why all this matters and how it scales to Java

Strunk and White The Elements of Style Bartelby.Com, 1918
There is no better book on style in writing (anything).


Scheme Readings

If you wish to learn to use Scheme as a tool, which is not the goal of this course, then take a look at the following:

The manuals in the Help Desk for the libraries in DrRacket

The Scheme cookbook, a collection of Scheme programming recipes

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Use Scheme. 2002

Dybvig The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd edition MIT Press, 2004