This book is addressed to people eager to learn and practice the principles of functional programming, and the best way to do so is by using a popular functional programming language. To teach our material, we use Racket. lt is the result of an ongoing development initiated in the 1990s by a research group called PLT, in the frame of a project for the creation of a pedagogic programming environment based on Scheme.

Racket has outstanding functional programming features, but is also ideal for the study of program design principles in general.

MIRCEA MARIN is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of West University of Timişoara, Romania, and former Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science from University of Tsukuba, Japan.

VIOREL NEGRU is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the West University of Timişoara, Romania.

ISABELA DRĂMNESC is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Scien-ce of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of West University of Timişoara, Romania.