COMMENT ⊗   VALID 00002 PAGES
C REC  PAGE   DESCRIPTION
C00001 00001
C00002 00002	\\M1BDR25\M2NGR40\M3NGR25\M4NGR20\F2\CSTANFORD UNIVERSITY
C00005 ENDMK
C⊗;
\\M1BDR25;\M2NGR40;\M3NGR25;\M4NGR20;\F2\CSTANFORD UNIVERSITY
\F3\CSTANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305
\F4COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT\←L\-R\/'7;\+R\→.\→S   Telephone:
\←S\→.415-321-2300
\F1\CDec,18,1973



Science Research Associates, Inc.
1540 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, Cal


Dear Sirs:

\JOver the past few years I have been developing a course which I believe would
make an interesting Computer Science textbook.

I am enclosing two outlines -- one for the last version of an undergraduate
course at UCLA, the second for a graduate reading-and-research course I
am currently teaching at Stanford.  The introductory course (E123a)  is
approximately ACM's I2, though I believe most of the material is quite manageable
earlier than Junior or Senior level.

The approach is particularly pleasing since it leads rapidly and naturally
to the practical areas of programming language  design and implementation
and systems programming, and also to some of the more theoretical areas of current Computer
Science research.

I am currently revising the text to a level somewhere between the introductory
and research course.  If such a book would be of interest I would enjoy talking
with one of your representatives.
\.
\←L\→S\←R\-L\/'2;\+L\→L

Yours sincerely,



John R. Allen
Research Associate
Computer Science Dept
Artificial Intelligence Labs

\←S\→L
JRA:pdp10