Books

Several outstanding books have been written about Icon and Unicon. Ordering these books, along with training, support, and consulting for Icon and Unicon are available from Jeffery Systems. Unicon research contracts are available through the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

The book, "Programming with Unicon", is the main definition of the language. It is updated periodically. You can look at it free online in PDF format; the book is freely copyable and modifiable under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. In order to make it more ``open'' in the 2nd edition, the Unicon book was converted to LaTex and its source is in the Unicon SVN repository (in doc/book/). There are some formatting tweaks and corrections/updates still needed. Please send us any bugs or comments you have to improve the book. Automated (unattended) nightly build of the book is available here.

The second edition of this book, "Build Your Own Programming Language", describes how to write the translators, compilers, and runtime systems in Unicon (and Java). It is published by Packt (product page, 1st edition) and also available from Amazon (1st edition).

The book, "The Implementation of Icon and Unicon: a Compendium", describes the translators, compilers, and runtime systems used by Icon and Unicon. It is available in PDF format. Automated (unattended) nightly build is available here.

This book documents Icon extensions for high-level monitoring and visualization and includes numerous code examples. These facilities are enhanced in Unicon, which provides interpreters with and without monitoring, and doesn't require that you recompile your programs to switch from the regular interpreter to the monitoring interpreter. Published by Springer. Springer placed this book back in print in softcover format, but did not update its contents. Used hardcopies may be preferable. Errata

This book includes a more recent treatment of the execution monitoring facilities, along with a discussion of visualizing Unicon program executions within a 3D multi-user, shared environment.
All the great graphics facilities developed for Icon are part of Unicon. "Graphics Programming in Icon" is available from Jeffery Systems. It is free online in PDF format from the University of Arizona. In addition, Robert Parlett has written a richer, better-designed, more extensible graphical user interface builder and class library, documented in "Programming with Unicon". A Unicon GUI primer is available in Unicon Technical Report #6.

Alan Corré has written the second edition of Icon Programming for Humanists, and generously made it available in an online format. The hard copies are published by Goal-Directed Press.

	The book, "Programming with Unicon", is the main definition of the language. It is updated periodically. You can look at it free online in PDF format; the book is freely copyable and modifiable under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. In order to make it more ``open'' in the 2nd edition, the Unicon book was converted to LaTex and its source is in the Unicon SVN repository (in doc/book/). There are some formatting tweaks and corrections/updates still needed. Please send us any bugs or comments you have to improve the book. Automated (unattended) nightly build of the book is available here.
	The second edition of this book, "Build Your Own Programming Language", describes how to write the translators, compilers, and runtime systems in Unicon (and Java). It is published by Packt (product page, 1st edition) and also available from Amazon (1st edition).
	The book, "The Implementation of Icon and Unicon: a Compendium", describes the translators, compilers, and runtime systems used by Icon and Unicon. It is available in PDF format. Automated (unattended) nightly build is available here.
	This book documents Icon extensions for high-level monitoring and visualization and includes numerous code examples. These facilities are enhanced in Unicon, which provides interpreters with and without monitoring, and doesn't require that you recompile your programs to switch from the regular interpreter to the monitoring interpreter. Published by Springer. Springer placed this book back in print in softcover format, but did not update its contents. Used hardcopies may be preferable. Errata
	This book includes a more recent treatment of the execution monitoring facilities, along with a discussion of visualizing Unicon program executions within a 3D multi-user, shared environment.
	All the great graphics facilities developed for Icon are part of Unicon. "Graphics Programming in Icon" is available from Jeffery Systems. It is free online in PDF format from the University of Arizona. In addition, Robert Parlett has written a richer, better-designed, more extensible graphical user interface builder and class library, documented in "Programming with Unicon". A Unicon GUI primer is available in Unicon Technical Report #6.
	Alan Corré has written the second edition of Icon Programming for Humanists, and generously made it available in an online format. The hard copies are published by Goal-Directed Press.