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Friedman and Felleisen's The Seasoned Schemer picks up where their book, The Little Schemer, left off and focuses on the myriad uses of functions in Scheme. Using the same dialogue format as The Little Schemer, the authors demonstrate how Scheme's flexible facilities for handling functions give the program so much variety and power. Along the way, the authors also present a variety of other more sophisticated language constructs.

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"I learned more about LISP from this book than I have from any of the other LISP books I've read over the years. . . . While other books will tell you the mechanics of LISP, they can leave you largely uninformed on the style of problem-solving for which LISP is optimized. The Little LISPer teaches you how to think in the LISP language. . . an inexpensive, enjoyable introduction."
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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (December 21, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 026256100X
ISBN-13: 978-0262561006
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
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The Schematics of Computation by Vincent Manis in Back Matter
The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition by R. Kent Dybvig in Back Matter
Programming in Scheme by Michael Eisenberg in Back Matter
Simply Scheme - 2nd Edition: Introducing Computer Science by Brian Harvey in Back Matter
An Introduction to Scheme by Jerry D. Smith in Back Matter

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Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software: Third International Symposium, TACS'97, Sendai, Japan, September 23 - 26, 1997, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Martin Abadi on page 413

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on thinking recursively, July 26, 2000

By	Brent Fulgham (Ventura, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is the second half of "The Little Schemer". It expects you to have mastered the previous volume, so it starts fast and picks up speed from there.

It covers a lot of ground in a slim volume (just as in "The Little Schemer"). This book introduces the concepts of closures and call-with-current-continuation (among other things).

As with "The Little Schemer", this book's strength is in its socratic instruction method. Lessons are written and illustrated as conversations between the reader and the instructor (in question/answer format). While this sounds strange, it is actually surprisingly effective as a means of learning the material. It might seem somewhat like rote instruction, but it can often frame foreign concepts in a rememberable fashion.

Neither of these books require much in the way of background or familiarity with the material. They were created as a means of teaching non-programmers to program in Scheme. However, I think they hold value for trained programmers as well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars introduces the rest of scheme (almost), September 3, 2006

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The Seasoned Schemer continues where the Little Schemer left off introducing local variables via let and it's variations including letrec. Set!, the syntax for changing a variables value is introduced. Continuations, as used for escaping from an computation and for going back to previous position in code are also introduced. There are less references to the accomplishments of famous computer scientists in this book than in the Little Schemer which I found to be disappointing. However, I greatly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone wanting to increase their understanding of the Scheme programming language. Although scheme's vector data type is not introduced, I think you will have enough of an understanding of Scheme after reading this book to make substantial programs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable Extension To The Little Schemer, October 5, 2009

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The book picks up and demonstrates using to letcc (call with current continuation) to speed up delivery of results or to simply forget pending applications and return to an outer list of s-expressions. Additionally there is more using of letrec and the demonstration of of using set!. The final chapter once again looks at creating the language within the language but this time including 'define' and using set! to update closures. If you felt reasonably confident with the Little Schemer you should be fine reading this extension book, and you will likely be much more confident with any lisp like languages having read it.

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