Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Name: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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ISBN: 9780070004849

ISBN-10: 0070004846

ISBN-13: 9780070004849

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Harold Abelson, Gerald J. Sussman, Julie Sussman

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Description:

This engineering-oriented book takes an analytical approach to problem-solving and programming techniques. It includes a new section on higher-order procedures in graphics and on application of stream processing in numerical programming.

Book details

List price: $148.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 556
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Contents


Foreword


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgments


Building Abstractions with Procedures


The Elements of Programming


Procedures and the Processes They Generate


Formulating Abstractions with Higher-Order Procedures


Building Abstractions with Data


Introduction to Data Abstraction


Hierarchical Data and the Closure Property


Symbolic Data


Multiple Representations for Abstract Data


Systems with Generic Operations


Modularity, Objects and State


Assignment and Local State


The Environmental Model of Evaluation


Modeling with Mutable Data


Concurrency: Time Is of the Essence


Streams


Metalinguistic Abstraction


The Metaciricular Evaluator


Variations on a Scheme--Lazy Evaluation


Variations on a Scheme--Nondeterministic Computing


Logic Programming


Computing with Register Machines


Designing Register Machines


A Register-Machine Simulator


Storage Allocation and Garbage Collection


The Explicit Control Evaluator


Compilation


References


List of Exercises


Index