A lot of books start at the low level and work their way up to higher abstractions. SICP goes the opposite direction: it starts close to math and then moves dow

A lot of books start at the low level and work their way up to higher abstractions. SICP goes the opposite direction: it starts close to math and then moves down towards the machine. So maybe you would enjoy the book more if you started from the last chapter [1] and worked backwards. [1] "Computing with Register Machines": https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/full-text/book/book-Z-H-30.html#%_chap_5 https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...