A better alternative (also from Berkeley): http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61as http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61as. It's the self-paced, Scheme-based versi

A better alternative (also from Berkeley): http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61as http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61as. It's the self-paced, Scheme-based version of the course. The website is currently for last semester; I have some friends working on it and they promise the next iteration (should be up soon) is going to be really awesome. I believe them. Also, since it's a self-paced course, it's probably a much better option if you want to work along on your own in your free time. I think some other institutions might be using the materials from this class as well, but am not sure about that. Here are the rather insightful thoughts about using Scheme vs Python for this course from its old professor (who was really awesome): http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html