CS 61A Lecture 3: Functions of Functions

CS 61A - Spring 08 - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Instructor Brian Harvey

Introduction to programming and computer science. This course exposes students to techniques of abstraction at several levels: (a) within a programming language, using higher-order functions, manifest types, data-directed programming, and message-passing; (b) between programming languages, using functional and rule-based languages as examples. It also relates these techniques to the practical problems of implementation of languages and algorithms on a von Neumann machine. There are several significant programming projects, programmed in a dialect of the LISP language.

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[Zaphodox]

Incredible. As a self taught programmer ('hobby' programming) these lectures do a wonderfull job of showing where the Big Ideas come from.

[simon2062]

Hi, why not publish EE20. That's also interesting and useful!

[bsandhu1000]

This is awesome. The lecturer is really good. Thankyou !

[piojosnos]

27:20 "they think you would get freak out if they say what they should say which is d/dx x maps etc, etc..."

"Priceless" :)

[dashiellv]

"se", "first, "butfirst"? I think I like "cons", "car", "cdr" better.

What dialect of scheme is this?

[dupreee27]

there u go..5 stars!!!

[bundarapapa]

Learn something from the lecture: first order and higher order functions...