2008-03-10 - Introduction to Scheme

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About this tutorial

Date : 2008-03-10
Tutor : Dan Cosser

What's it about?

The functional language Lisp has long been hailed as a wonderful language, but is comparatively rarely used outside of academia. A large part of this maybe down to the fact that it is completely alien to programmers raised in C, Java or VB. In this tutorial, Dan will explain the concepts behind Scheme, a Lisp variant that has many followers.

Resources

• Media:Schemetutorial08.odp - The OpenOffice Impress file

• Media:Schemetutorial08.pdf - The slides in PDF form (not much use without the notes...)

• Media:Schemetutorial08notes.zip - PDF with slides and extra notes

• DrScheme - A useful Scheme environment. There's also several free books on this site