Description
This highly accessible introduction to Lisp is suitable both for novices approaching their first programming language and experienced programmers interested in exploring a key tool for artificial intelligence research. The text offers clear, reader-friendly explanations of such essential concepts as cons cell structures, evaluation rules, programs as data, and recursive and applicative programming styles.
The treatment incorporates several innovative instructional devices, such as the use of function boxes in the first two chapters to visually distinguish functions from data, use of evaltrace notation in later chapters to illustrate the operation of evaluation rules, and Dragon stories to explain recursion. The book contains nearly 400 diagrams and illustrations, and 77 pages of answers to exercises. Advanced topics and toolkit sections, and a variety of complete programs, extend readers' programming power.
Author: David S. Touretzky
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 02/20/2013
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780486498201
ISBN10: 0486498204
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Languages | General
The treatment incorporates several innovative instructional devices, such as the use of function boxes in the first two chapters to visually distinguish functions from data, use of evaltrace notation in later chapters to illustrate the operation of evaluation rules, and Dragon stories to explain recursion. The book contains nearly 400 diagrams and illustrations, and 77 pages of answers to exercises. Advanced topics and toolkit sections, and a variety of complete programs, extend readers' programming power.
Author: David S. Touretzky
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 02/20/2013
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780486498201
ISBN10: 0486498204
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Languages | General
About the Author
David S. Touretzky is Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has taught Lisp in both academic and corporate settings for several decades.
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