Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming: Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi: 9780262220699: Amazon.com: Books (original) (raw)

Review

"In almost 20 years since Abelson and Sussman revolutionized the teaching of computer science with their "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", this is the first book I've seen that focuses on big ideas and multiple paradigms, as "SICP" does, but chooses a very different core model (declarative programming). I wouldn't have made all the choices Van Roy and Haridi have made, but I learned a lot from reading this book, and I hope it gets a wide audience."--Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

"This book follows in the fine tradition of Abelson/Sussman and Kamin's book on interpreters, but goes well beyond them, covering functional and Smalltalk-like languages as well as more advanced concepts in concurrent programming, distributed programming, and some of the finer points of C++ and Java."--Peter Norvig, Google Inc.

& quot; In almost 20 years since Abelson and Sussman revolutionized the teaching of computer science with their Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, this is the first book I've seen that focuses on big ideas and multiple paradigms, as SICP does, but chooses a very different core model (declarative programming). I wouldn't have made all the choices Van Roy and Haridi have made, but I learned a lot from reading this book, and I hope it gets a wide audience.& quot; --Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

& quot; This book follows in the fine tradition of Abelson/Sussman and Kamin's book on interpreters, but goes well beyond them, covering functional and Smalltalk-like languages as well as more advanced concepts in concurrent programming, distributed programming, and some of the finer points of C++ and Java.& quot; --Peter Norvig, Google Inc.

" In almost 20 years since Abelson and Sussman revolutionized the teaching of computer science with their "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," this is the first book I've seen that focuses on big ideas and multiple paradigms, as "SICP" does, but chooses a very different core model (declarative programming). I wouldn't have made all the choices Van Roy and Haridi have made, but I learned a lot from reading this book, and I hope it gets a wide audience." --Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

" This book follows in the fine tradition of Abelson/Sussman and Kamin's book on interpreters, but goes well beyond them, covering functional and Smalltalk-like languages as well as more advanced concepts in concurrent programming, distributed programming, and some of the finer points of C++ and Java." --Peter Norvig, Google Inc.

--Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

From the Inside Flap

"This is a fascinating book. It's been almost 20 years since Abelson and Sussman revolutionized the teaching of computer science with their Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. In all that time, there have been several books (some of them quite good) following SICP's ideas pretty closely, and of course many books following the old pedagogy in which the details of a programming language are the focus, with few deep ideas. But this is the first book I've seen that focuses on big ideas and multiple paradigms, as SICP does, but chooses a very different core model (declarative programming) the first real intellectual competition to Abelson and Sussman. I wouldn't have made all the choices Van Roy and Haridi have made, but I learned a lot from reading this book, and I hope it gets a wide audience." --Brian Harvey, Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley

About the Author

Peter Van Roy is Professor in the Department of Computing Science and Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain, at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Seif Haridi is Professor of Computer Systems in the Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Chief Scientific Advisor of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.