X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=c237ddb084f02d7537b0c175c4d3cd49bd6a21a5;hp=17004d1a8cca219b8ec2ba94fd5885226891da31;hb=b7a86f90096a5b69f5ff680e25027ad4bed37237;hpb=c7dc5ca5f9c80a9d39d691ba8ac60fe2abc1b5b7 diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 17004d1a..c237ddb0 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ Sample content. More content added by git. +CB:Here's some content added by me using git. + +Enabled "lockedit" plugin: testing that admins can still edit pages. + +CB: content added by editing the wiki page using a browser. + ---- +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). +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/). + + This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]].