Scheme Programming with MIT/GNU Scheme

Scheme is a programming language. It is a dialect (derivative) of Lisp. It was originally developed by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman in 1975. It is a functional programming language and has lexical scoping, tail-recursion, applicative order reduction, first-class functions, first-class continuations, garbage collection and uses lambda calculus.

References above are to the Free On Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC).

Using MIT/GNU Scheme

Free Manuals

• MIT/GNU Scheme User's Manual - How to install and run MIT/GNU Scheme.
• MIT/GNU Scheme Reference Manual - Definition of scheme language supported by MIT/GNU Scheme.

Web Pages

• The MIT/GNU Scheme Web Page - Official home page and download page.
• The MIT/GNU Scheme Project Page - Home of MIT/GNU Scheme development.
• Old MIT Scheme Web Page - Old home page.
• Emacs Wiki: MIT/GNU Scheme - Emacs-related information on MIT/GNU Scheme.

Tutorials

• Getting started with MIT/GNU Scheme by Wes Huang - Beginner page targeted to undergraduate computer science students learning to use MIT/GNU Scheme. Updated Fall 2005.
• Parsing Strings with MIT/GNU Scheme - Tutorial by Aaron Hawley. A PDF version of the document is also available.
• Parsing simple arithmetic expressions with MIT/GNU Scheme - Source code by Aaron Hawley.

Learning the Scheme Programming Language

• Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days - Free book by Dorai Sitaram.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs book - Full online version of the textbook by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: lectures - Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Info file - Entire book in GNU Info and Texinfo formats, useful for useing the book inside of GNU Emacs.
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming - How to program with grace and style leveraging all that is Scheme, written by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi.
• How to Use Scheme - Writing Scripts and Programs with PLT Scheme.

Other Relevant Web Locations

• Free Software Foundation - Value your freedom.
• Guile - Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, packaged as a library which can be incorporated into programs as an extension language.
• The Scheme Underground - A conspiracy to conquer the world with Scheme.
• Schemers - A collection of resources and pointers for Scheme programmers. Organized by the PLT Scheme Crew (DrScheme, MzScheme implementers).
• The Scheme Category at the Open Directory Project - Web sites related to the Scheme programming language.
• The Scheme entry at Wikipedia - Encyclopedia entry on the Scheme programming language.

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