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Are we sure this website is current? I don't see 2012 anywhere, and professors oftentimes forget to take down old course websites. If this is true, though, tha

Are we sure this website is current? I don't see 2012 anywhere, and professors oftentimes forget to take down old course websites. If this is true, though, that's great news. SICP is the perfect way to teach computer science from the ground up, assuming that you're dealing with a student dedicated enough to do things the 'hard way' (or at least, the way that's less immediately/obviously rewarding at first). This is harder to do at other schools where students are not yet certain that they want to study CS, and there is a need to 'sell' them very quickly on the merits of learning CS (which is why you end up with some intro classes designed around mobile app development, rather than fundamental CS theory).

burgerbrain 15y ago
I am not sure, but there is this: "Racket (previously DrScheme)" Does anybody know if that rename was after MIT stopped using SICP? If this is current, then it really is great news. This is probably one of the best times in quite a while to get into functional programming.
- chc 15y ago
  I'm pretty sure it was. Racket was renamed just a little over a year ago (though the previous name was actually "PLT Scheme" — DrScheme is an editor that became DrRacket).
  - burgerbrain 15y ago
    Ah, right you are.
pauldino 15y ago
The Project 1 handout says it was due yesterday, so I think it is.
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nelhage 15y ago
This website is current. I'm one of the alumni involved in this version of the course. To give some more context, this is a course taught by a group of MIT alumni over MIT's "IAP" January term (http://web.mit.edu/iap/ http://web.mit.edu/iap/). As such, it's only 8 lectures over the course of a month, not a full semester-long class. It's partially sponsored by the EECS department and worth 6 units of P/D/F credit, but is not affiliated with the official EECS curriculum in any way, and does not fulfill any department requirements. It's mostly just an effort by a few of us who loved SICP to give students these days an opportunity to be exposed to some of the Big Ideas from the class, that we feel haven't really found their way into the revamped curriculum.
- wes-exp 15y ago
  Just wanted to say: thank you for helping to restore SICP.
philwelch 15y ago
If you follow the link to the "SIAB IAP page", it's pretty obviously for 2012.

burgerbrain 15y ago

I am not sure, but there is this: "Racket (previously DrScheme)" Does anybody know if that rename was after MIT stopped using SICP? If this is current, then it really is great news. This is probably one of the best times in quite a while to get into functional programming.

chc 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it was. Racket was renamed just a little over a year ago (though the previous name was actually "PLT Scheme" — DrScheme is an editor that became DrRacket).
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  Ah, right you are.

pauldino 15y ago

The Project 1 handout says it was due yesterday, so I think it is.

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nelhage 15y ago

This website is current. I'm one of the alumni involved in this version of the course. To give some more context, this is a course taught by a group of MIT alumni over MIT's "IAP" January term (http://web.mit.edu/iap/ http://web.mit.edu/iap/). As such, it's only 8 lectures over the course of a month, not a full semester-long class. It's partially sponsored by the EECS department and worth 6 units of P/D/F credit, but is not affiliated with the official EECS curriculum in any way, and does not fulfill any department requirements. It's mostly just an effort by a few of us who loved SICP to give students these days an opportunity to be exposed to some of the Big Ideas from the class, that we feel haven't really found their way into the revamped curriculum.

wes-exp 15y ago
Just wanted to say: thank you for helping to restore SICP.

philwelch 15y ago

If you follow the link to the "SIAB IAP page", it's pretty obviously for 2012.