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Given that the person is in prison, it seems rather improbable that s/he was on a course to be a first-year undergraduate or is particularly familiar with algeb
by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Given that the person is in prison, it seems rather improbable that s/he was on a course to be a first-year undergraduate or is particularly familiar with algebra. The average person doesn't know algebra all that well, you know.
Frankly, I do not understand the people who are attempting to push CS textbooks on this person. The original question does not contain the words "computer science" anywhere within it.
- db48x 10y agoSICP is entirely focused on the practical aspects of programming. There's nothing in there about the halting problem, or the Church-Turing thesis. The discussion of run-time and space requirements divides everything into constant time/space and everything else. That's useful for figuring out when your recursive procedure evolves a process that needs only constant stack space. There's no study of algorithms or data structures (well, there's simple lists and tagged data, but no b-trees, red-black trees, etc).