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The Sequel To SICP

30 points by fiaz 18y ago

asdflkj 18y ago
There is no sequel to SICP. It's just a course, not a book. There was already sort of a sequel (http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/), but it's far from new.
- sdp 18y ago
  Presumably, fiaz is referring to SICP the class (6.001 -> http://sicp.csail.mit.edu/Fall-2007/ http://sicp.csail.mit.edu/Fall-2007/) rather than the book. The posted course site is not up to date, because as far as I know 6.001 is no longer being taught at MIT. (http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index.html http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index.html)
  - euccastro 18y ago
    Yup, SICP was a course before it was a book.
  - fiaz 18y ago
    I thought I was being clever but in the end I've ended up confusing people. I think you can take it as you want to. By using the word "sequel" in the title, I was implying that there is perhaps some hope for future CS students to be inspired by the beauty that was in the SICP class and book. I took a class that was based on the book at the University of Minnesota and it still stands in my memory as one of the best classes in CS that I have ever taken. My love for the class and book is so deep that sometimes I'll flip through the three copies I have (one first edition, and two distinctly different printings of the second edition) just to remind me of how beautiful hacking can be...
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fairramone 18y ago
Scheme. Barf.
- kaens 18y ago
  What don't you like about scheme? Specifically, what don't you like about scheme used as a language for teaching?
aston 18y ago
BTW, sickest class ever. Most of the dev team at Dropbox took the course. It's a mindbender, plus you get to hang out with Gerry Sussman. Pretty much every lecture is spent examining a different programming approach and demonstrating that it's either trivially implemented in Scheme, more elegantly implemented in Scheme, or actually not worth implementing in the first place.
- sdp 18y ago
  G. J. Sussman, Jolly Good Fellow (http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/810000/804464/p208-sussman.pdf?key1=804464&key2=1017543121&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=32288204&CFTOKEN=18327249 http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/810000/804464/p208-sussman.p...)
- harshavr 18y ago
  sounds really interesting. the course page has sets of projects, and assignments, but are there lecture notes up online anywhere?
  - aston 18y ago
    Most of the lectures are on the ad hoc side. I don't recall ever seeing any of the notes (Sussman and Hanson prefer actual overhead slides to Powerpoint) going online officially, although there might be some student notes? It's been called 6.891 in addition to 6.945. edit--Here's what I could track down: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/readings/ http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/reading... http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring08/code/ http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring08/code/

30 points by fiaz 18y ago

There is no sequel to SICP. It's just a course, not a book. There was already sort of a sequel (http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/), but it's far from new.

sdp 18y ago
Presumably, fiaz is referring to SICP the class (6.001 -> http://sicp.csail.mit.edu/Fall-2007/ http://sicp.csail.mit.edu/Fall-2007/) rather than the book. The posted course site is not up to date, because as far as I know 6.001 is no longer being taught at MIT. (http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index.html http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/newcurriculum/index.html)
- euccastro 18y ago
  Yup, SICP was a course before it was a book.
- fiaz 18y ago
  I thought I was being clever but in the end I've ended up confusing people. I think you can take it as you want to. By using the word "sequel" in the title, I was implying that there is perhaps some hope for future CS students to be inspired by the beauty that was in the SICP class and book. I took a class that was based on the book at the University of Minnesota and it still stands in my memory as one of the best classes in CS that I have ever taken. My love for the class and book is so deep that sometimes I'll flip through the three copies I have (one first edition, and two distinctly different printings of the second edition) just to remind me of how beautiful hacking can be...
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fairramone 18y ago

Scheme. Barf.

kaens 18y ago
What don't you like about scheme? Specifically, what don't you like about scheme used as a language for teaching?

aston 18y ago

BTW, sickest class ever. Most of the dev team at Dropbox took the course. It's a mindbender, plus you get to hang out with Gerry Sussman. Pretty much every lecture is spent examining a different programming approach and demonstrating that it's either trivially implemented in Scheme, more elegantly implemented in Scheme, or actually not worth implementing in the first place.

sdp 18y ago
G. J. Sussman, Jolly Good Fellow (http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/810000/804464/p208-sussman.pdf?key1=804464&key2=1017543121&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=32288204&CFTOKEN=18327249 http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/810000/804464/p208-sussman.p...)
harshavr 18y ago
sounds really interesting. the course page has sets of projects, and assignments, but are there lecture notes up online anywhere?
- aston 18y ago
  Most of the lectures are on the ad hoc side. I don't recall ever seeing any of the notes (Sussman and Hanson prefer actual overhead slides to Powerpoint) going online officially, although there might be some student notes? It's been called 6.891 in addition to 6.945. edit--Here's what I could track down: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/readings/ http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/reading... http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring08/code/ http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring08/code/