Read “The Scheme Programming Language 4th Edition” online for free. The author, R. Kent Dybvig, is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and principal developer of Chez Scheme.
Book Description
Scheme is a general-purpose programming language, descended from Algol and Lisp, widely used in computing education and research and a broad range of industrial applications. This thoroughly updated edition of The Scheme Programming Language provides an introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise manner. Written for professionals and students with some prior programming experience, it begins by leading the programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and continues with an introduction to some of the more advanced features of the language.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Going Further
- Procedures and Variable Bindings
- Control Operations
- Operations on Objects
- Input and Output
- Syntactic Extension
- Records
- Libraries and Top-Level Programs
- Exceptions and Conditions
- Extended Examples