Re: book recommendation

[Bret Victor <bret@...>]

Carl Dougan <carl.dougan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Does anybody have any recommendations on books for learning 'higher
> order programming'?

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is the one book
to rule them all.  You can even read it all online, although I wouldn't 
recommend it:

  http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
  
The book uses Scheme, but all of the concepts apply perfectly to Lua.

Another superb book (in a very different way) is "The Little Schemer":

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS