A new version of the classic and widely used text adapted for the JavaScript programming language.
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.
By:
Harold Abelson,
Gerald Jay Sussman,
Martin Henz,
Tobias Wrigstad
Contributions by:
Julie Sussman
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262543231
ISBN 10: 0262543230
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 22 February 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Harold Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Gerald Jay Sussman is Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. Martin Henz is Associate Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore. Tobias Wrigstad is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Uppsala University.
