Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition

Name: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780262510875

ISBN-10: 0262510871

ISBN-13: 9780262510875

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman

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PLEASE NOTE: This is the international paperback edition of this book. The MIT Press does not have sales rights for this paperback edition in the US and Canada. Customers in the US and Canada must order the hardcover edition. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 574
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of the IEEE. He is a founding director of Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the Free Software Foundation. Additionally, he serves as co-chair for the MIT Council on Educational Technology.

Gerald Jay Sussman is Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He is the coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press). Sussman and Wisdom are also coauthors of Functional Differential Geometry (MIT Press).



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