Texts

Required Readings:

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

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs/2nd edition MIT Press, DRAFT

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

It is not the goal of this course to teach you how to program in the PLT Scheme programming language. In our experience, though, some students wish to learn more about the language and/or its Scheme programming language, its ancestor. For those we recommend three distinct "books":

the Guide in the Help Desk for the libraries in DrScheme
the Scheme cookbook
the best book on general Scheme programming currently on the market
Dybvig The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd edition MIT Press, 2004