X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=ca3fd23289b151d70aa0db7940426cdd94fcc0f4;hp=afed30641a974ac441c243ea39441962b2b7703f;hb=d14d930cfc556a62374fb3cef15fed78b8b72718;hpb=53a6c7001c0faf618903613b5e327a1f202e5694 diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index afed3064..ca3fd232 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,19 @@ 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, Fourth Edition*, 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, available 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]].