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Not sure about the video lectures, but I'm fairly certain the original course was taught to MIT undergrads as an intro to CS and EE. See https://people.eecs.ber

Not sure about the video lectures, but I'm fairly certain the original course was taught to MIT undergrads as an intro to CS and EE. See https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html and https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/course.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/course.htm.... I don't totally disagree with you btw. Pretty sure in that interview with Hal Abelson someone mentioned above, he admitted the book leaned a little heavily on calculus because all MIT freshmen had to take that course, so it seemed a natural source for examples. Perhaps not as natural to someone who hasn't taken a calculus course in a decade (me). I still got a lot out of the book though.

jpmattia 7y ago
> but I'm fairly certain the original course was taught to MIT undergrads as an intro to CS and EE This is correct: The course number was 6.001 and was a requirement in EECS in those days. I took it while SICP was still only notes in 1983, and the notes ended up as a book shortly after.
- raible 7y ago
  Actually, the course number back then was 6.031. I only become 6.001 later on.
  - jpmattia 7y ago
    Must not have been clear in my post: It was 6.001 in 1983, when I took the class with Sussman and Abelson. The book was still not published, and they gave it to us as xeroxed notes.