Comments on: So you want to do the SICP… https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/ // TODO: insert witty tagline Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:35:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Abhirath Mahipal https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-42698 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 04:39:36 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-42698 I’ve been postponing SICP from quite some time now. Hopefully when I’m here the next time, I’d have finished a considerable chunk.

]]> By: Cs https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-10971 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:34:07 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-10971 HTDP2 is a similar book used for the same purpose in the same university, keeping the spirit of SICP and Scheme, but made teaching in mind. A winner.

]]> By: Neil Mathew https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-10340 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:35:06 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-10340 SICP was a true eye-opener for me. While at college teachers would say about recursion and state that its not good to use too much recursion, but SICP explained to me what recursion truely is and in doing so made me realize for my self why it shouldn’t be used too much.

I read SICP after finishing by B-Tech Degree, i would suggest people to read and work out SICP while they are in college itself.

]]> By: Pete https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-5579 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:49:27 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-5579 SICP a bar-none the best programming book out there. Despite what others have said it is not only a good intro book, it is the best intro book. It doesn’t hold your hand and give you cook-book style experience. It teaches you how to think computationally, it forces you to understand each exercise before moving to the next and it demands that you work extremely hard. You can’t complete this book in a few days, but those that do understand its content are well on their way to becoming true programmers.

]]> By: Pete https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-5578 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:48:29 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-5578 SICP a bar-none the best programming book out there. Despite what others have said it is not only a good intro book, it is the best intro book. It doesn’t hold your hand and give you cook-book style experience. It teaches you how to think computationally, it forces you to understand each exercise before moving to the next and it demands that you work extremely hard. You can complete this book in a few days, but those that do understand its content are well on their way to becoming true programmers.

]]> By: Kost https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-3861 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:38:25 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-3861 You will never be a good programmer if you care only about money.
You sound like a 10-year-old kid that never saw a piece of code in his life.
Go program in your Visual Basic!

]]> By: Scheming, Dreaming, and Programming with SICP | HacDC https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-3454 Tue, 15 May 2012 22:13:58 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-3454 […] Schemers is a study group for those interested in exploring Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programming (SICP), an introductory Computer Science textbook used by MIT. Not only is the entire textbook available online for free, but it has some rather zealous fanboys and fangirls. […]

]]> By: Matt https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-3337 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:33:22 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-3337 Hipster ape, you’re right programmer is too loose of a term..

SICP makes you an artist who’s medium is applied logic. I honestly don’t care if you think this makes me a jackass.. Luckily the beauty of being an artist is that I don’t create art for you or anyone else.. I do it for the concept which burns to be given form.

It sounds as if you’re a code monkey.. That’s fine but at heart you’re a businessman with good computer communication skills.

I guess the value depends upon what you aspire to.

]]> By: 所以，你该试试SICP https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-983 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:22:01 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-983 […] 原文链接，作者： Florent Delannoy […]

]]> By: Simon https://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/2011/so-you-want-to-do-the-sicp/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:04:14 +0000 http://www.uponmyshoulder.com/blog/?p=385#comment-974 SISC works in Firefox 4 on Mac OS X 10.6.6

@Cristian: Racket is a good scheme editor/interpreter: http://racket-lang.org/

SICP was written with MIT Scheme in mind: http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/

I vaguely remember some minor differences between the two.

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