• Title: Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme
• Author(s) Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, and Karl Knight
• Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition (September 10, 1998), eBook (1999)
• Permission: Link to the Book's Homepage. "Out of print but available for free on the web"
• Paperback: 670 pages
• eBook: PDF (686 pages)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534952119
• ISBN-13: 978-0534952112
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Book Description

This text covers the basics of programming and data structures, and gives first-time computer science students the opportunity to not only write programs, but to prove theorems and analyze algorithms as well.

• Max Hailperin holds SB and PhD degrees from MIT and Stanford, respectively. He is Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, where he has taught since 1990. In 2002 he received the college's distinguished teaching award. He has published a previous textbook, Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme (co-authored with Barbara Kaiser and Karl Knight), as well as journal articles and conference papers.

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