Required Reading:

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs. MIT Press, 2001

Strunk and White The Elements of Style. Bartelby.Com, 1918

Recommended Readings:

Friedman, Felleisen The Little Schemer: Fourth Edition MIT Press, 1996

an alternative introduction to recursive programming

Friedman, Felleisen The Seasoned Schemer MIT Press, 1996

more on functional and imperative programming

Felleisen, Friedman A Little Java, A Few Patterns MIT Press, 1998

why all this matters and how it scales to Java

Scheme Readings:

If you wish to learn to use Scheme as a tool, which is not the goal of this course, then take a look at the following books:

Dybvig The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd edition MIT Press, 2004

Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Use Scheme. 2002