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High School Computing: The Inside Story - How Scheme made learning programming fun.

Indiana University Educational Infrastructure Project - Developing software and courseware to support the use of Scheme in undergraduate education.

An Introduction to Scheme - 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.

A Page About call/cc - 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.

Scheme in Education - A meta-resource maintained by Shriram Krishnamurthi for people interested in Scheme as a tool in education.

Schools Using Scheme - 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 - 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 - An online Scheme tutorial by Dorai Sitaram.

The TeachScheme! Project - 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.

It's Time to Learn Scheme - Article introduces Scheme to programmers and system administrators; in text and code samples. Linux.com. (April 3, 2008)

An Introduction to Scheme - 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] (January 1, 2001)