scheme continuations for dummies

Question

For the life of me, I can\'t understand continuations. I think the problem stems from the fact that I don\'t understand is what they are for. All the examples that

Answer 1

Here is text from my class notes: http://tmp.barzilay.org/cont.txt. It is based on a number of sources, and is much extended. It has motivations, basic explanations, more advanced explanations for how it's done, and a good number of examples that go from simple to advanced, and even some quick discussion of delimited continuations.

(I tried to play with putting the whole text here, but as I expected, 120k of text is not something that makes SO happy.