'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' is a course offered in the seventh semester of B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Introduction to LISP and Scheme – Building abstractions with procedures: Elements of programming procedures and processes they generate – Formulating abstracts with higher-order procedures.
Unit 2
Building abstractions with data: Introduction to data abstraction – Hierarchical data and the closure property – Symbolic data – Multiple representations for abstract data – Systems with genertic operations.
Unit 3
Modularity, object and state: Assignment and local state – Environment model of evaluation – Modeling with mutable data – Concurrency – Streams
- Abelson H and Sussman G. J., “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”, Second Edition, MITPress, 2005.
- Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright, “Simple Scheme: Introducing Computer Science”, Second Edition, MIT Press, 1999.
- M. Felleisen, R. B. Findler. M. Flatt and S. Krishnamurthy, “How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing”, MIT Press, 2001.
- Daniel P. Friedman and M. Felleisen, “The Little Schemer”, Fourth Edition, MIT Press, 1995
- Daniel P. Friedman and M. Felleisen, “The Seasoned Schemer”, MIT Press, 1995.
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