X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=698f519ae91e9a60faf89bd415da84f6451f6873;hp=e5431d7e5f9e6567e51857a951c35b1d42115635;hb=5762a06a15b615c6dbd172c1d8cb92cb5313515a;hpb=41fc6988f4884de2c9fe4655be38730ffc882c19 diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index e5431d7e..698f519a 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Some programming resources: Books: - *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). + *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/).