From b7a86f90096a5b69f5ff680e25027ad4bed37237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: barker Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:29:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] --- index.mdwn | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index e5431d7e..c237ddb0 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ Some programming resources: 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/). -- 2.11.0