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IAP 2007 Activity


Practical Scheme Programming
Taylor R. Campbell
Tue Jan 30, Thu Feb 1, 04-06:00pm, 1-115

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Some prior programming experience; 6.001 would be good.

Is Scheme just a silly academic language for introductory CS courses, or is it actually a useful language for building complex programs? What you know of Scheme so far may incline you toward the former, but I will show that you are wrong! Can Scheme draw graphics? Absolutely. Can Scheme do web applications? Yes, and it is among the most flexible languages for doing so! Concurrent, distributed computation? Shell scripting? And more...
Web: http://stuff.mit.edu/iap
Contact: Taylor R. Campbell, W20-557, x3-7788, sipb-iap-scheme@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
Latest update: 26-Dec-2006


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