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Introduction to Programming Using Sml
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Author: Michael R. Hansen, Hans Rischel
List Price: $39.00
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ISBN: 0201398206
Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley (21 July, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 391,661
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Good introduction to functional programming
The book gives very good introduction to sml and functional programming. It is very easy to read (actually the first programming book I ever read), and it is very thorough. Beside teaching you sml the book gives examples of how to design, implement and write technical documentation for different problems. The examples is carefully choosen to illustrate the power of sml. All around a good book. Maybe it lacks a little more thorough explanation about higher order functions. But surely the best introductionary book about sml, I have ever read.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Gives a good foundation of functional programming
This book gives you a good foundation of functional programming, with many threads into more advanced topics.
The book also contains four chapters on problem solving, they will give you many ideas for practical use of the methods described.
The exampels contain insight in algoritms and datastructurs, and the use of ML types is presented with full understanding of the problems.
The book has a very compact structur, but gives good explanations on topics like recursive- and higher-order functions, datatypes and records.
Rating: 1 out of 5
For the campus bookstore only
This book is not very good as a general introduction to programming. This book wants to give you a tool which you can use to solve purely technical tasks. Further, it wants to give you a programming style before introducing any basic concepts about the programming language. Finally, SML is a bad choise if you are a complete newbie, as the SML lives in a very small world. There are 100s of books on other languages, but so far we only have 3 (three) books on SML. Because SML is a technical book for the university. However, I doubt anyone would buy this book if he or she was not a student. Besides, there are many errors in this book ... If you want an introduction to genuine programming, i suggest you read Teach Yourself C by Herbert Schildt.
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