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I'd pick up e-book copies of the computer books that are famous for having lots of follow-along problems to solve. SICP exercises, "learn to code" books are ge
by serf 3y ago
I'd pick up e-book copies of the computer books that are famous for having lots of follow-along problems to solve.
SICP exercises, "learn to code" books are generally structured that way. 'How to build X' books are similar.
Not a suggestion necessarily, but 'Land of Lisp' is mostly taught through author-guided tutorials and how-tos for small projects. I imagine that format would be useful in a disconnected area.
- awabrh 3y agoI remember working through Brian Harvey's SICP lecture notes and HWs a couple of years ago. Each Homework had one harder exercise labeled "Extra for Experts" which I later found out was standard in a lot of UC Berkeley courses. The recursion HW was really fun so I took it upon my self to never look up the answer to the Extra exercise no matter how long it took me to solve it. The problem was to re-implement the recursive function of the last exercise using only lambda functions. I wrestled with it for hours, then gave up, then got back to it days later before I finally cracked it. Later that day I googled the question to see better/ more elegant solutions and found out about this thing called Y combinator, I googled it to know more but everywhere I look I see this company called Ycombinator. Down the rabbit hole I went and 27 PG essays, 230 HN hrs and 2 years later, here am I Good times :)