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I made a course page for anyone interested in taking SICP in future

40 points by temple_os 4y ago

temple_os 4y ago
It's modelled off the Berkeley 61A lectures from 2011, before they switched away from Scheme. It collects material strewn around dead links and abandoned course pages and puts it in an easy to digest format, with all the materials you need provided in a repo.
xdavidliu 4y ago
I self-studied the entire book and did all the problems around the beginning of Covid. The biggest roadblock I found was the "picture language" problems in chapter 2 didn't have an obvious implementation of "painters" in MIT scheme. There was some libraries I found in 25-year old 6.001 course webpages, but they were not functional. Fortunately, there was a recent Racket library that was specifically designed for that chapter of SICP.
- tmtvl 4y ago
  I never did the SICP picture language exercises, but the book Concrete Abstractions* has some very similar exercises, but done through a simple library that outputs EPS. * https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html
- soegaard 4y ago
  https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Picture_Language.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Picture_Langua...
masukomi 4y ago
a) yay b) I'm surprised i don't see mention of racket in here. My understanding is that their implementation of MIT scheme + the VERY beginner friendly aspects of Racket's Dr. Racket editor make it the best place for folks to work on this course's code. Especially since so few of them will have had scheme experience. I certainly found it nice.
alaurie 4y ago
Isn't the How to Design Programs 2e (HTDP) book a kind of successor to SICP. https://htdp.org/2022-8-7/Book/index.html https://htdp.org/2022-8-7/Book/index.html
- soegaard 4y ago
  "The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum" https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-sicp-fdpe2002.pdf https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si... The authors of HtDP on SICP.
- temple_os 4y ago
  HTDP is (quite a bit) easier, and only really derived from the first few chapters of SICP if that. The course I recommend as a pre-req is actually based of HTDP, I think it really helps with the much more comprehensive SICP
benbenolson 4y ago
It's a shame the torrents don't seem to have any seeders; they're very good lectures, and fairly small file sizes.

40 points by temple_os 4y ago

It's modelled off the Berkeley 61A lectures from 2011, before they switched away from Scheme. It collects material strewn around dead links and abandoned course pages and puts it in an easy to digest format, with all the materials you need provided in a repo.

xdavidliu 4y ago

I self-studied the entire book and did all the problems around the beginning of Covid. The biggest roadblock I found was the "picture language" problems in chapter 2 didn't have an obvious implementation of "painters" in MIT scheme. There was some libraries I found in 25-year old 6.001 course webpages, but they were not functional. Fortunately, there was a recent Racket library that was specifically designed for that chapter of SICP.

tmtvl 4y ago
I never did the SICP picture language exercises, but the book Concrete Abstractions* has some very similar exercises, but done through a simple library that outputs EPS. * https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html
soegaard 4y ago
https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Picture_Language.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Picture_Langua...

masukomi 4y ago

a) yay b) I'm surprised i don't see mention of racket in here. My understanding is that their implementation of MIT scheme + the VERY beginner friendly aspects of Racket's Dr. Racket editor make it the best place for folks to work on this course's code. Especially since so few of them will have had scheme experience. I certainly found it nice.

alaurie 4y ago

Isn't the How to Design Programs 2e (HTDP) book a kind of successor to SICP. https://htdp.org/2022-8-7/Book/index.html https://htdp.org/2022-8-7/Book/index.html

soegaard 4y ago
"The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum" https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-sicp-fdpe2002.pdf https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si... The authors of HtDP on SICP.
temple_os 4y ago
HTDP is (quite a bit) easier, and only really derived from the first few chapters of SICP if that. The course I recommend as a pre-req is actually based of HTDP, I think it really helps with the much more comprehensive SICP

benbenolson 4y ago

It's a shame the torrents don't seem to have any seeders; they're very good lectures, and fairly small file sizes.