- LISP (Computer program language), Scheme (Computer program language), Lisp, Linguagem de programação
The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of arithmetic and algebra ;things that everyone studies in grade school and high school. It introduces programs as recursive functions and briefly discusses the limits of what computers can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and interesting foods to illustrate these abstract ideas.
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Warm, intimate, spare and cool.
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- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- MIT Press, The MIT Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780262560993
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