I found watching the "lisp lectures" way more enlightening than that inscrutable book... The book assumes all sorts of geometrical and mathematical knowledge wh

I found watching the "lisp lectures" way more enlightening than that inscrutable book... The book assumes all sorts of geometrical and mathematical knowledge which I don't have. And when you don't have that, yet attempt the exercises, you are basically tasked with reinventing the field of mathematics from scratch. Given it took our collective species a few thousand years to get where we are now this is unreasonable for a single person to pull off in a lifetime. The lectures however focus on Lisp and recursive problem solving, and abstraction itself. Basically everything the book is, but in total they take less time, and are (for me) more effective. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090