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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming And the books in the "The Little Sche
by snakeanus 9y ago
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
And the books in the "The Little Schemer" series.
I would also suggest "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" but this is not from MIT Press.
- spraak 9y agoThanks! And cool, the Little Schemer books is actually how I first started programming.
- Jtsummers 9y agoSICP is already available online for free. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
- MrMorden 9y agoMIT Press has published SICP online for free for years. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
- snakeanus 9y agoUnder CC-SA nonetheless. In fact, Hal Abelson (one of the authors of SICP) was also one of the founders of Creative Commons. Moreover the other author (Gerald J. Sussman) is in the board of directors of the FSF.
- ghaff 9y agoFYI, there's a "gray market" paperback version of the AI text you mention available from Amazon at a very reasonable price--about 10% of the standard US version. This is the textbook for at least one AI-related edX MOOC (Columbia).