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Structure and interpretation of computer programs, second edition
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by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman
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Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
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Computer programming, LISP (Computer program language), mirror, pdf.yt, Computer science, Electronic digital computers, programming, LISP (Langage de programmation), Programmeren (computers), Computers, Programmation (Informatique), Programmierung, LISP, Programming, TI 99/4A (Computer), LOGO (Computer program language), TI 99/4 (Computer), scheme, Lisp (computer program language), Computer systemsprogramming, Qa76.6 .a255 1985, Qa 76.6 a141s 1985, 001.64/2Showing 6 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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Ji suan ji cheng xu de gou zao he jie shi: Structure and interpretation of computer programs
2004, Ji xie gong ye chu ban she
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Structure and interpretation of computer programs, second edition
1996, MIT Press, McGraw-Hill
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
July 25th 1996, MIT Press Ltd, M I T Press, MIT Press Ltd, M I T Press, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Structure and interpretation of computer programs
1985, MIT Press, McGraw-Hill
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Structure and interpretation of computer programs
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Table of Contents
Foreword.
Foreword
Preface.
Preface to the First Edition
Preface.
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements.
Acknowledgements
1.
Building Abstractions with Procedures
1.1.
The Elements of Programming
1.1.1.
Expressions
1.1.2.
Naming and the Environment
1.1.3.
Evaluating Combinations
1.1.4.
Compound Procedures
1.1.5.
The Substitution Model for Procedure Application
1.1.6.
Conditional Expressions and Predicates
1.1.7.
Example: Square Roots by Newton's Method
1.1.8.
Procedures as Black Box Abstractions
1.2.
Procedures and the Processes They Create
1.2.1.
Linear Recursion and Iteration
1.2.2.
Tree Recursion
1.2.3.
Orders of Growth
1.2.4.
Exponentiation
1.2.5.
Greatest Common Divisors
1.2.6.
Example: Testing for Primality
1.3.
Formulating Abstractions with Higher-Order Procedures
1.3.1.
Procedures as Arguments
1.3.2.
Constructing Procedures Using Lambda
1.3.3.
Procedures as General Methods
1.3.4.
Procedures as Returned Values
2.
Building Abstractions with Data
2.1.
Introduction to Data Abstraction
2.1.1.
Example: Arithmetic Operations for Rational Numbers
2.1.2.
Abstraction Barriers
2.1.3.
What Is Meant By Data?
2.1.4.
Extended Exercise: Interval Arithmetic
2.2.
Hierarchical Data and the Closure Property
2.2.1.
Representing Sequences
2.2.2.
Hierarchical Structures
2.2.3.
Sequences as Conventional Interfaces
2.2.4.
Example: A Picture Language
2.3.
Symbolic Data
2.3.1.
Quotation
2.3.2.
Example: Symbolic Differentiation
2.3.3.
Example: Representing Sets
2.3.4.
Example: Huffman Encoding Trees
2.4.
Multiple Representations for Abstract Data
2.4.1.
Representations for Complex Numbers
2.4.2.
Tagged data
2.4.3.
Data-Directed Programming and Additivity
2.5.
Systems with Generic Operations
2.5.1.
Generic Arithmetic Operations
2.5.2.
Combining Data of Different Types
2.5.3.
Example: Symbolic Algebra
3.
Modularity, Objects, and State
3.1.
Assignment and Local State
3.1.1.
Local State Variables
3.1.2.
The Benefits of Introducing Assigment
3.1.3.
The Costs of Introducing Assignment
3.2.
The Environment Model of Evaluation
3.2.1.
The Rules for Evaluation
3.2.2.
Applying Simple Procedures
3.2.3.
Frames as the Repository of Local State
3.2.4.
Internal Definitions
3.3.
Modeling with Mutable Data
3.3.1.
Mutable List Structures
3.3.2.
Representing Queues
3.3.3.
Representing Tables
3.3.4.
A Simulator for Digital Circuits
3.3.5.
Propogation of Constraints
3.4.
Concurrency: Time Is of the Essence
3.4.1.
The Nature of Time in Concurrent Systems
3.4.2.
Mechanisms for Controlling Concurrency
3.5.
Streams
3.5.1.
Streams Are Delayed Lists
3.5.2.
Infinite Streams
3.5.3.
Exploiting the Stream Paradigm
3.5.4.
Streams and Delayed Evaluation
3.5.5.
Modularity of Functional Programs and Modularity of Objects
4.
Metalinguistic Abstraction
4.1.
The Metacircular Evaluator
4.1.1.
The Core of the Evaluator
4.1.2.
Representing Expressions
4.1.3.
Evaluator Data Structures
4.1.4.
Running the Evaluator as a Program
4.1.5.
Data as Programs
4.1.6.
Internal Definitions
4.1.7.
Separating Syntactic Analysis from Execution
4.2.
Variations on a Scheme—Lazy Evaluation
4.2.1.
normal Order and Applicative Order
4.2.2.
An Interpreter with Lazy Evaluation
4.2.3.
Streams as Lazy Lists
4.3.
Variations on a Scheme—Nondeterministic Computing
4.3.1.
Amb and Search
4.3.2.
Examples of Nondeterministic Programs
4.3.3.
Implementing the Amb Evaluator
4.4.
Logic Programming
4.4.1.
Deductive Information Retrieval
4.4.2.
How the Query System Works
4.4.3.
Is Logic Programming Mathematical Logic?
4.4.4.
Implementing the Query System
5.
Computing with Register Machines
5.1.
Designing Register Machines
5.1.1.
A Language for Describing Register Machines
5.1.2.
Abstraction in Machine Design
5.1.3.
Subroutines
5.1.4.
Using a Stack to Implement Recursion
5.1.5.
Instruction Summary
5.2.
A Register-Machine Simulator
5.2.1.
The Machine Model
5.2.2.
The Assembler
5.2.3.
Generating Execution Procedures for Instructions
5.2.4.
Monitoring Machine Performance
5.3.
Storage Allocation and Garbage Collection
5.3.1.
Memory as Vectors
5.3.2.
Maintaining the Illusion of Infinite Memory
5.4.
The Explicit-Control Evaluator
5.4.1.
The Core of the Explicit-Control Evaluator
5.4.2.
Sequence Evaluation and Tail Recursion
5.4.3.
Conditionals, Assignments, and Definitions
5.4.4.
Running the Evaluator
5.5.
Compilation
5.5.1.
Structure of the Compiler
5.5.2.
Compiling Expressions
5.5.3.
Compiling Combinations
5.5.4.
Combining Instruction Sequences
5.5.5.
An Example of Compiled Code
5.5.6.
Lexical Addressing
5.5.7.
Interfacing Compiled Code to the Evaluator
References.
References
List of Exercises.
List of Exercises
Index.
Index
Edition Notes
This edition emphasizes several new themes. The most important of these is the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming, lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. Includes new sections on concurrency and nondeterminism.
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