CS61A

• Taught using Scheme: a lexically-scoped, procedural programming language

• Core Concepts

  • Recursion
  • Abstraction
  • First-class procedures
  • Models of programming

• Also used as introduction to core CS disciplines

• MIT version attempts to teach Zen of programming via problem sets.

  • The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer (by Felleisen and Friedman)

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