Customer Review: I used this book to teach myself Scheme. It used to be offered at MIT as 6.001 but unfortunately they removed it in favor of 6.01 Python. Scheme is very much the "Latin" of programming languages: it's not extremely useful but it teaches you how to approach programming and how to think about it.... more info
Customer Review: The Seasoned Schemer continues where the Little Schemer left off introducing local variables via let and it's variations including letrec. Set!, the syntax for changing a variables value is introduced. Continuations, as used for escaping from an computation and for going back to previous position in... more info
Customer Review: I read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) when it was first published. This inspired me to learn LISP (at least to the extent that was needed to understand the examples in that outstanding book). For a long time I put off using LISP for any problem solving because there... more info
Customer Review: I bought this book interested in AI applications; I already knew LISP when I read it and I find it one of the best books for introduction to LISP. The text and samples themselves teach you how to learn.
Customer Review: "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" is one of the best books of computer science that I have ever read. I put it up there in the pantheon with "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". I have found more useful and mind expanding material in these case studies than I have in... more info
Customer Review: This is *the* reference for ANSI Common Lisp. I wish it had some more examples, though. Sometimes I go to this book, find what I want, but need to check an example in some other book.
But you need this one if you're going to use Lisp (it's also available for free, legally).
Customer Review: Unlike many technical and programming books, the author of this book shows his love and dedication to programming, and sets down the ground rules with a little bit of history to help understand exactly what it is that you are doing. This book is so full of good information, you almost have to read... more info
Customer Review: Another Lisp geek heard from. I used this book in a Programming Languages course I taught (SUNY Potsdam, Spring 2008) and I loved it. Students learned Common Lisp from class lectures and this book and, given that they are successfully writing Lisp interpreters, they were well able to do so. The book... more info
