[plt-scheme] Learning functional programming

From: Michael Vanier (mvanier42 at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 12 21:40:14 EST 2009

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Feb 12, aditya shukla wrote:
>   
>> Hello people ,
>>
>> i am new to the concept of functional programming and using EOPL as
>> text.But the thing is i end up getting confused more often than
>> learning from it. Can someone please suggest me any other other
>> resource to study from ?
>>     
>
> Try PLAI -- http://www.plai.org/ .
>
>   
Or more naively, try HtDP (http://www.htdp.org) and SICP 
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp).  EOPL/PLAI strikes me as jumping into 
the deep end of the pool.  Also, those books focus on program 
interpretation/semantics rather than general functional programming.

Mike


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