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Summary: Horridly Hard To Read
Review: The author of this book seems to have purposefully obfuscated every paragraph in this book. I had a course in Program Organization a couple semesters ago and this was the textbook for the class.I "read" the first few chapters, then gave up. I was tired of having to re-read every, and I mean every, sentence of the book multiple times in order to understand the topics covered.
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Summary: A Great Programming Text
Review: This book is definitely on the must-read list for any student (and practitioner alike) of the art of programming.
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Summary: Student view
Review: This book relies too heavily on the syntax of Scheme in the early stages. I find myself learning another language, and not new concepts. The title should be "Essentials of Scheme."
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Summary: Essentials of Programming Languages
Review: This book was truly a masterpiece. This is all the concepts of programming you need. After reading this book, all you have to know to learn other languages is style and functions.. This covers advanced programming concepts.
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Summary: My View
Review: This is a great book used in "The Theory of Programming Language" in Iowa State University. Although this book use Scheme to illustrate fundamental concepts of programming languages, I found out later that these concepts are especially useful in helping me to understand other language like Java. e.g. you can pass argument(s) to C++ fn either by value or by reference, in Java you're passing argument by copy-reference only(except primitive data tyeps).
However, beware that there're lots of errors in this book, be sure to check out the publisher's web site and checkout a list of erranta.
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Summary: Painful for most students
Review: We had to read this text for Prof. Friedman's Programming Languages course. It was entirely unintuitive and slow reading. I grasped very few of the concepts in the book. However, because of Friedman's curve, I got a B+ in the class, which tells me that most students were just as lost as I was.
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