Books:
- *The little schemer*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon]
+ *The Little Schemer*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon]
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992/ref=pd_sim_books/103-5471398-9229403#reader_0262560992).
This is a classic text introducing the gentle art of programming, using the functional programming language Scheme.
+Many people love this book, but it has an unusual dialog format that is not to everybody's taste.
**Of particular interest for this course** is the explanation of the Y combinator, avaialble as a free sample chapter
[at the MIT Press web page for the book](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/).