CSC 324: References

Textbooks

Most of these books are on reserve in the library and can be used as additional references to the course.

• Recommended, if you really want a course textbook (covers most of the ideas in the course):
  • Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, 6th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• Related general programming language textbooks:
  • Sethi, Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Mitchell, Concepts in Programming Languages, Cambridge, 2003.
• Scheme:
  • Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language: ANSI Scheme, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2003. (online version)
  • Springer and Friedman, Scheme and the Art of Programming, McGraw-Hill/MIT Press, 1989.
• C++:
  • Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• ML:
  • Ullman, Elements of ML Programming, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1997.
• Prolog:
  • Clocksin and Mellish, Programming in Prolog, 4th ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994.
  • Bratko, PROLOG, Programming for Artificial Intelligence, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 2001.
  • Sterling and Shapiro, The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques, 2nd ed., MIT Press,1994.

References

Scheme

C++

C++ was originally an extension of C, and served as a major inspiration for the design of Java. Take the object-oriented ideas you learned in Java, and combine them with your experience with C (or other imperative languages), and C++ should be fairly straightforward.

• C++ Language Tutorial - a good beginners reference
• C++ Annotations (A C++ guide for programmers who already know C)
• A strongly opinionated C++ intro by Tom Anderson

Prolog

• Getting started with SWI Prolog.
• SWI-Prolog homepage, reference manual and index
• Prolog :- Tutorial
• Learn Prolog Now!
• Coding Guidelines for Prolog by Michael Covington