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Projects advocating the use of the Scheme language in education, online Scheme tutorials, and introductory papers on Scheme.

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• A Page About call/cc

  http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/callcc.html
  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.

• An Introduction to Scheme

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/eip/dfried.ps
  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.

• High School Computing: The Inside Story

  http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html
  How Scheme made learning programming fun.

• Indiana University Educational Infrastructure Project

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/eip/home.html
  Developing software and courseware to support the use of Scheme in undergraduate education.

• Scheme in Education

  http://www.schemers.org/Education/
  A meta-resource maintained by Shriram Krishnamurthi for people interested in Scheme as a tool in education.

• Schools Using Scheme

  http://www.schemers.com/schools.html
  A compilation of colleges, universities, and secondary schools which use Scheme in their curricula. Compiled and maintained by Ed Martin of Schemers, Inc.

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Web Site

  http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
  SICP is a very well known text teaching the conceptual basis of programming. The full text is available on the web site.

• Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html
  An online Scheme tutorial by Dorai Sitaram.

• The TeachScheme! Project

  http://www.teach-scheme.org/
  Goals of this Rice University project: disseminate a new introductory curriculum on computing, and turn computing and programming into indispensable parts of the liberal arts college curriculum.

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