[plt-scheme] Learning functional programming

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Feb 12 21:43:05 EST 2009

On Feb 12, Michael Vanier wrote:
> 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.

(Yes, of course -- I just assumed that the request was for a book on a
similar subject...)

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