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Programming Languages (Record no. 19480)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0073523399
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MnU
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency MnU
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QA76
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krishnamurthi, Shriram
Relator term author
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Programming Languages
Remainder of title Application and Interpretation
Statement of responsibility, etc. Shriram Krishnamurthi
264 #2 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Open Textbook Library
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brown University
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Open textbook library.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1 Introduction -- 2 Everything (We Will Say) About Parsing -- 3 A First Look at Interpretation -- 4 A First Taste of Desugaring -- 5 Adding Functions to the Language -- 6 From Substitution to Environments -- 7 Functions Anywhere -- 8 Mutation Structures and Variables -- 9 Recursion and Cycles: Procedures and Data -- 10 Objects -- 11 Memory Management -- 12 Representation Decisions -- 13 Desugaring as a Language Feature -- 14 Control Operations -- 15 Checking Program Invariants Statically: Types -- 16 Checking Program Invariants Dynamically: Contracts -- 17 Alternate Application Semantics
520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Unlike some other textbooks, this one does not follow a top-down narrative. Rather it has the flow of a conversation, with backtracking. We will often build up programs incrementally, just as a pair of programmers would. We will include mistakes, not because I don't know the answer, but because this is the best way for you to learn. Including mistakes makes it impossible for you to read passively: you must instead engage with the material, because you can never be sure of the veracity of what you're reading. At the end, you'll always get to the right answer. However, this non-linear path is more frustrating in the short term (you will often be tempted to say, "Just tell me the answer, already!"), and it makes the book a poor reference guide (you can't open up to a random page and be sure what it says is correct). However, that feeling of frustration is the sensation of learning. I don't know of a way around it. At various points you will encounter this: ExerciseThis is an exercise. Do try it. This is a traditional textbook exercise. It's something you need to do on your own. If you're using this book as part of a course, this may very well have been assigned as homework. In contrast, you will also find exercise-like questions that look like this: Do Now!There's an activity here! Do you see it? When you get to one of these, stop. Read, think, and formulate an answer before you proceed. You must do this because this is actually an exercise, but the answer is already in the book-most often in the text immediately following (i.e., in the part you're reading right now)-or is something you can determine for yourself by running a program. If you just read on, you'll see the answer without having thought about it (or not see it at all, if the instructions are to run a program), so you will get to neither (a) test your knowledge, nor (b) improve your intuitions. In other words, these are additional, explicit attempts to encourage active learning. Ultimately, however, I can only encourage it; it's up to you to practice it. The main programming language used in this book is Racket. Like with all operating systems, however, Racket actually supports a host of programming languages, so you must tell Racket which language you're programming in. This textbook has been used in classes at: Brown University, Cal Poly, Columbus State University, Northeastern University, NYU, Reed College, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Cruz, University of Rhode Island, University of Utah, Westmont College, Williams College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
542 1# - INFORMATION RELATING TO COPYRIGHT STATUS
Copyright statement Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note In English.
588 0# - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note Description based on print resource
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Computer Science
Form subdivision Textbooks
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Open Textbook Library
Relator term distributor
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/35">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/35</a>
Public note Access online version
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          Digital Library Online Access 05.11.2020   QA76 05.11.2020 https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/35 05.11.2020 eBook

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