The Seasoned Schemer (MIT Press)

The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as The Little LISPer) and its new companion volume, The Seasoned Schemer, apart from other books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for their subject is compelling as they present abstract concepts in a humorous and easy-to-grasp fashion. Together, these books will open new doors of thought to anyone who wants to find out what computing is really about. The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of arithmetic and algebra; things that everyone studies in grade school and high school. It introduces programs as recursive functions and briefly discusses the limits of what computers can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and interesting foods to illustrate these abstract ideas. The Seasoned Schemer informs the reader about additional dimensions of computing: functions as values, change of state, and exceptional cases. The Little LISPer has been a popular introduction to LISP for many years. It had appeared in French and Japanese. The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer are worthy successors and will prove equally popular as textbooks for Scheme courses as well as companion texts for any complete introductory course in Computer Science.

「思考計算是人類心智最令人興奮的事情之一」的概念使得《小小計算機》（前身為《小小LISPer》）以及它的新伴侶《經驗豐富的計算機》與其他關於LISP的書籍有所不同。作者對於他們的主題充滿熱情，以幽默且易於理解的方式呈現抽象概念。這兩本書將為任何想要了解計算機真正意義的人打開新的思維之門。《小小計算機》將計算機介紹為算術和代數的延伸；這些是每個人在小學和高中都學習的東西。它將程序介紹為遞歸函數，並簡要討論了計算機的極限。作者使用Scheme編程語言和有趣的食物來說明這些抽象概念。《經驗豐富的計算機》向讀者介紹了計算機的其他維度：函數作為值、狀態的改變和異常情況。《小小LISPer》多年來一直是LISP的受歡迎入門書籍。它已經出現在法語和日語中。《小小計算機》和《經驗豐富的計算機》是其值得稱道的繼任者，將同樣受歡迎作為Scheme課程的教科書，以及任何完整的計算機科學入門課程的伴隨教材。