CSE 130, Summer 2009

Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms

Scheme resources

The Scheme implementation required for this class is PLT Scheme. The distribution (including DrScheme and MzScheme) is available on ACS machines and you can also install it on your own machine. The Web site also offers a useful guide to the language and lots of other documentation.

Scheme Tutorials and References

• Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days is a thorough but reasonably quick introduction to Scheme.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is an excellent classic introductory computer-science text using Scheme.
• How to Design Programs is another introductory computer-science text by some prominent folks in the PLT community.
• The Scheme Programming Language (Second Edition) is a well-known book available online.
• The R5RS definining description of Scheme is reasonably short for such a document.

Articles about Scheme

• An Introduction to Scheme is a magazine article containing a short, broad treatment that gives some historical background and delves briefly into fairly advanced topics like closures and continuations. (Thanks to Josh Darnell for finding this.)

Scheme Implementations (other than PLT)

• CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler that produces portable C code.
• Gambit Scheme is a portable, standards-compliant Scheme implementation providing both an interpreter and a compiler.
• Gauche is a Scheme implementation intended for general-purpose scripting.
• Guile is a Scheme interpreter embedded in popular programs such as GNU Emacs and The GIMP.
• MIT/GNU Scheme is an implementation suited for programming large applications.