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How does this book compare to SICP?

Al0neStar 4y ago
the authors wrote a paper compraing it to sicp. https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-sicp-fdpe2002.pdf https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si...
cinntaile 4y ago
There is another book that is usually mentioned when comparing these two. Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming. I don't know how they all compare to each other, I just mention it for completeness sake. https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
- Al0neStar 4y ago
  i havent read this book but i skimmed the toc and i have to say its probably even harder than sicp. http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/booktoc.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/booktoc.pdf
- tmtvl 4y ago
  There is another book which isn't often mentioned, which I like to consider "SICP-lite", Concrete Abstractions: https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html
- jhoechtl 4y ago
  This is a great book and uses a back then obscure, today defunct programming language Oz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
  - systems 4y ago
    an updated version that uses a current language would be nice, but the book isnt even open source (i.e. under the Creative Commons license)
  - zerr 4y ago
    Would it be easy to follow the book using Mercury language?
- tacon 4y ago
  Years ago, the author taught a MOOC covering parts of the book[0]. The course is archived on edX, and the videos are on YouTube[1]. It was fun starting from a super simple functional language and building to a dataflow functional language by the end. [0] https://www.edx.org/course/paradigms-of-computer-programming-fundamentals https://www.edx.org/course/paradigms-of-computer-programming... [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw454N-VXALSIzIe_eL5U8L4S68v2X_ak https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw454N-VXALSIzIe_eL5U...
zabzonk 4y ago
much easier to read, less tedious math/engineering stuff.

the authors wrote a paper compraing it to sicp. https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-sicp-fdpe2002.pdf https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si...

cinntaile 4y ago

There is another book that is usually mentioned when comparing these two. Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming. I don't know how they all compare to each other, I just mention it for completeness sake. https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Al0neStar 4y ago
i havent read this book but i skimmed the toc and i have to say its probably even harder than sicp. http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/booktoc.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/booktoc.pdf
tmtvl 4y ago
There is another book which isn't often mentioned, which I like to consider "SICP-lite", Concrete Abstractions: https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html
jhoechtl 4y ago
This is a great book and uses a back then obscure, today defunct programming language Oz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
- systems 4y ago
  an updated version that uses a current language would be nice, but the book isnt even open source (i.e. under the Creative Commons license)
- zerr 4y ago
  Would it be easy to follow the book using Mercury language?
tacon 4y ago
Years ago, the author taught a MOOC covering parts of the book[0]. The course is archived on edX, and the videos are on YouTube[1]. It was fun starting from a super simple functional language and building to a dataflow functional language by the end. [0] https://www.edx.org/course/paradigms-of-computer-programming-fundamentals https://www.edx.org/course/paradigms-of-computer-programming... [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw454N-VXALSIzIe_eL5U8L4S68v2X_ak https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw454N-VXALSIzIe_eL5U...

zabzonk 4y ago

much easier to read, less tedious math/engineering stuff.