Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition - Table of Contents

July 1996
683 pp.
$86.00/£63.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-01153-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-01153-2

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition
Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

	Contents	vii

	Foreword	xi

	Preface to the Second Edition	xv

	Preface to the First Edition	xvii

	Acknowledgments	xxi

1	Building Abstractions with Procedures	1

1.1	The Elements of Programming	4

1.2	Procedures and the Processes They Generate	31

1.3	Formulating Abstractions with Higher-Order Procedures	56

2	Building Abstractions with Data	79

2.1	Introduction to Data Abstraction	83

2.2	Hierarchical Data and the Closure Property	97

2.3	Symbolic Data	142

2.4	Multiple Representations for Abstract Data	169

2.5	Systems with Generic Operations	187

3	Modularity, Objects and State	217

3.1	Assignment and Local State	218

3.2	The Environmental Model of Evaluation	236

3.3	Modeling with Mutable Data	251

3.4	Concurrency: Time Is of the Essence	297

3.5	Streams	316

4	Metalinguistic Abstraction	359

4.1	The Metaciricular Evaluator	362

4.2	Variations on a Scheme--Lazy Evaluation	398

4.3	Variations on a Scheme--Nondeterministic Computing	412

4.4	Logic Programming	438

5	Computing with Register Machines	491

5.1	Designing Register Machines	492

5.2	A Register-Machine Simulator	513

5.3	Storage Allocation and Garbage Collection	533

5.4	The Explicit Control Evaluator	547

5.5	Compilation	566

	References	611

	List of Exercises	619

	Index	621

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