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A new version of the classic and widely used text adapted for the JavaScript programming language.
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced computer science curricula around the world. Widely adopted as a textbook, the book has its origins in a popular entry-level computer science course taught by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman at MIT. SICP introduces the reader to central ideas of computation by establishing a series of mental models for computation. Earlier editions used the programming language Scheme in their program examples. This new version of the second edition has been adapted for JavaScript.
The first three chapters of SICP cover programming concepts that are common to all modern high-level programming languages. Chapters four and five, which used Scheme to formulate language processors for Scheme, required significant revision. Chapter four offers new material, in particular an introduction to the notion of program parsing. The evaluator and compiler in chapter five introduce a subtle stack discipline to support return statements (a prominent feature of statement-oriented languages) without sacrificing tail recursion.
The JavaScript programs included in the book run in any implementation of the language that complies with the ECMAScript 2020 specification, using the JavaScript package sicp provided by the MIT Press website.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs JavaScript Edition
by Abelson, Harold; Sussman, Gerald Jay; Henz, Martin; Wrigstad, Tobias; Sussman, JulieFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2022-04-12
Publisher(s): The MIT Press
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Author Biography
Harold Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Gerald Jay Sussman is Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. Martin Henz is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. Tobias Wrigstad is Professor of Computer Science at Uppsala University.
Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Foreword to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1984 xvii
Preface xxi
Prefaces to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1996 & 1984 xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
1 Building Abstractions with Functions 1
2 Building Abstractions with Data 69
3 Modularity, Objects, and State 189
4 Metalinguistic Abstraction 317
5 Computing with Register Machines 449
References 565
Index 571
List of Exercises 607
Foreword to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1984 xvii
Preface xxi
Prefaces to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1996 & 1984 xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
1 Building Abstractions with Functions 1
2 Building Abstractions with Data 69
3 Modularity, Objects, and State 189
4 Metalinguistic Abstraction 317
5 Computing with Register Machines 449
References 565
Index 571
List of Exercises 607
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