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diff --git a/js/games/nluqo.github.io/~bh/ss/ack.html b/js/games/nluqo.github.io/~bh/ss/ack.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..105146d --- /dev/null +++ b/js/games/nluqo.github.io/~bh/ss/ack.html @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>Simply Scheme Acknowledgments</TITLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<CITE>Simply Scheme</CITE> 2/e Copyright (C) 1999 MIT +<H1>Acknowledgments</H1> + +<TABLE><TR><TD> +<P><IMG SRC="../simply.jpg" ALT="cover photo"> +<TD valign="center"> +<CITE><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/">Brian +Harvey</A><BR><A HREF="http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~matt">Matthew +Wright</A><BR>University of California, Berkeley</CITE> +<BR><BR><A HREF="http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262082810">MIT +Press web page for Simply Scheme</A> +</TABLE> + +<P><A HREF="../simply-toc.html">(back to Table of Contents)</A> + +<HR> + +<P>Obviously our greatest debt is to Harold Abelson, +Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman. They have +inspired us and taught us, and gave birth to the movement to which we are +minor contributors. Julie carefully read what we thought was the final +draft, made thousands of suggestions, both small and large, improved the +book enormously, and set us back two months. Hal encouraged us, read early +drafts, and also made this a better book than we could have created on our +own. + +<P> +Mike Clancy, Ed Dubinsky, Dan Friedman, and +Tessa Harvey also read drafts and made detailed and very helpful +suggestions for improvement. Mike contributed many exercises. +(We didn't take their advice about everything, though, so they get none of +the blame for anything you don't like here.) + +<P>Terry Ehling and everyone at the MIT Press have given this +project the benefit of their enthusiasm and their technical support. We're +happy to be working with them. + +<P>The Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, +allowed us to teach a special section of the CS 3 course using the first +draft of this book. The book now in your hands is much better because of +that experience. We thank Annika Rogers, our teaching assistant +in the course, and also the thirty students who served not merely as guinea +pigs but as collaborators in pinning down the weak points in our +explanations. + +<P>Some of the ideas in this book, especially the different approaches to +recursion, are taken from Brian's earlier Logo-based +textbook.<SUP>*</SUP> +Many of our explanatory metaphors, especially the "little people" model, +were invented by members of the Logo community. We also took the word and +sentence data types from Logo. Although this book doesn't use Logo itself, +we tried to write it in the Logo spirit. + +<P><SMALL><BLOCKQUOTE><SMALL><SUP>*</SUP><EM>Computer Science Logo Style, volume 1: +Intermediate Programming,</EM> MIT Press, 1985.</SMALL></BLOCKQUOTE></SMALL> + +<P>We wrote much of this book during the summer of 1992, while we were on the +faculty of the Institute for Secondary Mathematics and Computer Science +Education, an inservice teacher training program at Kent State University. +Several of our IFSMACSE colleagues contributed to our ideas both about +computer science and about teaching; we are especially indebted to +Ed Dubinsky and Uri Leron. + +<P>We stole the idea of a "pitfalls" section at the end of each chapter from +Dave Patterson and John Hennessy. + +<P>We stole some of the ideas for illustrations from Douglas +Hofstadter's wonderful <EM>Godel, Escher, Bach.</EM> + +<P>David Zabel helped with the preparation of the program diskettes, +especially with compiling SCM for the PC. + +<P>We conclude this list with an acknowledgment of each other. Because of the +difference in our ages, it may occur to some readers to suspect that we +contributed unequally to this book--either that Matt did all the work and +Brian just lent his name and status to impress publishers, or that Brian had +all the ideas and Matt did the typing. Neither of these is true. Almost +everything in the book was written with both of us in front of the computer, +arguing out every paragraph. When we did split up to write some sections +separately, each of us read and criticized the other's work. (We're a +little surprised that we still like each other, after all the arguments!) +Luckily we both like the Beatles, +Chinese food, and ice cream, so we had a common ground for +programming examples. But when you see an example about +Bill Frisell, you can be pretty sure it's Matt's writing, and when +the example is about Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich, it's probably +Brian's. + +<P><A HREF="../simply-toc.html">(back to Table of Contents)</A> + +</HTML> + |