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Textbook

For the C portion of the course, we'll use the book C by Dissection: the essentials of C programming, by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl, 3rd edition. (The 2nd edition, used for this course last year, contains most of the same material, but some sections have been added and some explanations rewritten.) I expect you to read the first 10 chapters of this textbook in the first 9 weeks of the semester, which means an average of about fifty pages a week.

I haven't found a really suitable textbook for teaching Scheme at this level, so the Scheme portion of the course will rely more on lectures and exercises.

You are responsible for everything in the reading assignments, whether or not I discuss it in a lecture.



Stephen Bloch
Wed Oct 2 15:37:21 EDT 1996