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(More customer reviews)I like this text very much. I originally used it as a text for an upper level undergraduate course on programming languages. I still occasioanlly refer back to it as I feel that it introduces several concepts in a very accessible way suitable for those looking for a foundation to do advanced work in computer science.
I do feel, however, that the book is sadly getting a bit dated. I would update the historical notes to be more relevant to current readers and also I would make the book's reference implementation of scheme to be one of the major scheme distributions such as chez or plt .
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Providing a broad overview of computer science, this book goes beyond the usual coverage of programming skills to show how the field of computer science is held together by a small number of powerful ideas.Explores common programming paradigms (functional, imperative, and object-oriented); algorithms and data structures; computer hardware and assembly language programming; databases; artificial intelligence; and logic programming.For those interested in an overview of the field of computer science.
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