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An online Scheme tutorial by Dorai Sitaram.
A meta-resource maintained by Shriram Krishnamurthi for people interested in Scheme as a tool in education.
A compilation of colleges, universities, and secondary schools which use Scheme in their curricula. Compiled and maintained by Ed Martin of Schemers, Inc.
By Shriram Krishnamurthi. Introduction, history, code samples. Published in student magazine of Association for Computing Machinery, which has published several articles on varied languages, including Scheme. [ACM Crossroads]
Developing software and courseware to support the use of Scheme in undergraduate education.
A paper by Daniel P. Friedman (1994) which provides a good introduction to Scheme programming. Presented at the First International Forum on Computer Programming in Education, ITESM, Mexico.
Materials (lab assignments, homework exercises, exams, and projects) for an introductory course in Computer Science taught in Scheme at Grinnell College. The primary Scheme system used is Chez Scheme, but SCM and DrScheme are also used, along with XEmacs for editing.
SICP is a very well known text teaching the conceptual basis of programming. The full text is available on the web site.
Good introduction, explains call-with-current-continuation function and how it works. Compares to exceptions in languages Java, C++, C's setjmp() and longjmp(), problems of lexical versus dynamic scoping with continuations. Very informative, more so for intermediate Scheme programmer trying to understand language's heart.
A short paper by Christopher T. Haynes (1997) which outlines a one-semester course presenting compiler development in a number of code transformation steps using Scheme as its source language.
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