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SICP is not about scheme, has never been about scheme, will never be about scheme. It strikes me that when someone says that, and my GSI said something very si
by CalChris 8y ago
SICP is not about scheme, has never been about scheme, will never be about scheme.
It strikes me that when someone says that, and my GSI said something very similar to that in section, it means that the book+course has failed to say what it is about, clearly, in a way the student will understand rather than misunderstand.
It's f'ing ineffable is not a good thing.
- veddox 8y agoFrom the preface to the first edition: > we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs... The whole preface talks about how the aim of the book is to get students to think with a programmer's mindset. Scheme is only incidentally the language the consider best for the task, due to its near-absence of syntax. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html#%_chap_Temp_4 https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...