Summary: SICP is a great book but it has little concern for the program design process and so is not a good introductory text. Our text, HtDP, is a much better

Summary: SICP is a great book but it has little concern for the program design process and so is not a good introductory text. Our text, HtDP, is a much better introduction to programming. A background link: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message4223.html http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message4223.html (note the link discusses the conference paper, not the full journal paper).