Required Reading:

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

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Gray, Krishnamurthi, Proulx How to Design Classes MIT Press, 2010

Recommended Readings:

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 DrScheme

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