This page covers the following
topics related to Scheme : Enter Scheme, Data types, Forms, Conditionals,
Lexical variables, Recursion, I/O, Macros, Structures, Alists and tables, System
interface, Objects and classes, Jumps, Nondeterminism, Engines, Shell scripts,
CGI scripts.
The report gives
a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a
statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming
language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was
designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different
ways to form expressions. This PDF covers the following topics related to Scheme
: Introduction, Overview of Scheme, Requirement levels, Numbers, Lexical syntax
and datum syntax, Semantic concepts, Entry format, Libraries, Top-level
programs, Primitive syntax, Expansion process, Base library.
This book is primarily intended as
the text for a first undergraduate course in computer science. It
introduce several abstract ideas in as concrete a way as possible. This book is
divided into three parts, dealing with procedural abstractions, data
abstractions, and abstractions of state.
Author(s): Max
Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, and Karl Knight