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Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together?
I've starting reading SICP but haven't been too good at keeping at it. Does anyone want to join in to help each other work through the exercises and stay on track?
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoweekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.
- chrisconley 18y agoThat's a great idea. We could also set up a google group(or something similar) if people were interested.
- brl 18y agoHow about an IRC channel on freenode too.
- chrisconley 18y agohow does ##hn-sicp sound?
- mk 18y agoYeah I would be interested. I've already started going through the lectures and some of the exercises, but it would be cool to work on them in groups.
- silentbicycle 18y agoI'm interested, too. I'm up to chapter two in the exercises, FWIW. vokes dot s at gmail dot com
- rantfoil 18y agouse chatterous.com -- it's great for small group chat.
- jimb 18y agoYeah, this book has been at the top of my wish list for a while. I think it would be great to get 5 or so like minded people all starting near the beginning of the book. Simple irc room, and weekly chats about material would be great.
- Anon84 18y agoI'm in.
- maury_k-po 17y agohola
- bprater 18y agoGetting folks on an email list to announce the bat-time and bat-channel might be the way to go. Otherwise, everyone will completely forget. Anyone have a quick service that allows folks to create a very simple and small email list of folks?
- arasakik 18y agoIf you use chatterous.com you'll get your own room that you can hook Email or IM into. You'll also get a one-click url that will bring you to web chat.
- alnayyir 18y agoI'm in.
- notaddicted 18y agoI'm in as well.
- johngunderman 18y agocount me in.
- judofyr 18y agoI'm also in! My copy is being shipped at the moment, though. Should arrive around 3th Februar :/
- sharkbrainguy 18y agohttp://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html should work fine until then
- silentbicycle 18y agoThe texinfo SICP (http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/) is good too, if you're working in Emacs.
- sharkbrainguy 18y agoI am, thanks!
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- dlimeb 18y agoI'm in as well, and my copy is being shipped too :) Ordered it a few days ago.
- tptacek 18y agoIsn't there some Web 2.0 app that organizes book clubs like this? I have a couple books (signal processing, compilers, programmable logic) that I'd really like to work through with a couple people; what I really want to do is get together every other week or so over beers in Chicago, though.
- Anon84 18y agoThe closest site I know that does something similar is http://www.MeetUp.com http://www.MeetUp.com You can probably create a "Chicago Hacker Meetup" and start scheduling meetings.
- nonrecursive 18y agoI actually had the idea to make a site like this last night. bookbuddies.com or something like that. You could start an online book group with a few people and have your own forum, but also see the forums of other people who are reading the same book. I'm pretty sure http://www.librarything.com http://www.librarything.com fulfills this need though.
- idiopathic 18y agohttp://www.booksprouts.com/ http://www.booksprouts.com/ Designed for exactly this kind of scenario, and recently launched.
- truebosko 18y agoI've been going through SICP, albeit slower then I would hope so. I'm only into the initial sections and I would definitely be up for something like weekly IM chats at a scheduled time to discuss the book and help each other understand. That would be great, so count me in if it happens.
- rbanffy 18y agoI'm in too
- brl 18y agoSure, count me in.
- zain 18y ago+1 me too
- chrisconley 18y agoIt looks like there is at least a few people interested. Should we all leave a comment with contact info (if it's not in your profile)? My email is chris.m.conley at the goog.
- chrisconley 18y agoForget the email thing; we'll set up an irc channel :)
- metaguri 18y agoi'm in. i'm on chapter 2 right now. i think irc meetings are a good way to go.
- thehickmans 18y agoThis sounds like a good way to keep motivated, having tried and failed to get through SICP on my own. Count me in.
- macmac 18y agoI am in!
- chrisconley 18y agoFreenode channel ##hn-sicp has been setup for weekly meetups and/or ongoing discussion. I also set up http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp for arranging discussion times and any other miscellaneous things if needed.
- chrisconley 18y agoThe Freenode channel has been changed to ##SICP
- siong1987 18y agoI am in.
- moiz 18y agoI want to be in... but I've 5 other courses to deal with...
- cnu 18y agoI too want to be in. Have been hanging around in chapter 2 for a very long time. But don't want to start on a new thing now. Have been working on many things lately and want to finish it off.
- arjungmenon 18y agoI'm in.
- nx 18y agoI'm SO in :D:D
- carbon8 18y agoIn
- wfarr 18y agoI'm in!
- noblethrasher 18y agoI'm in. rod at ennobleit dot com
- yan 18y agoI just finished chapter 1, but would love to join you guys.
- KirinDave 18y agoSince many HN readers are in the CA Bay Area, would it make sense to add a bi-weekly or monthly physical meeting to this as well?
- staticshock 18y agoI got SICP as a christmas present, I'm in.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoSame here :) Book club is a go!
- r11t 18y agoExcellent. I just started with SICP. So doing it together with HN folks sounds nice!
- kirubakaran 18y agoCool! I am in.
- jlujan 18y agoIn
- redline6561 18y agoI'm certainly interested. I got bogged down in Chapter 2 last year. Time to go again, I suppose.
- curiousandy 18y agoCount me in
- hydo 18y agoCount me in as well. I bought the book as a package deal from amzn with "The little Schemer" and haven't read much of it.
- tomkarlo 18y agoI'd like to be added to the mailing list ... tom /at/ karlo /dot/ org
- smydsmyd 18y agowelcome to first year!
- vlad 18y agoI'm in!
- steveeq1 18y agoMight I make a recommendation? Start with "The Little Schemer" and then graduate to "The Seasoned Schemer". Here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262560992/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231703825&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02... It takes you more step-by-step than SICP and once you get more practice with those books, SICP will be much more paletable.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoI got through it in a sense. I attempted every problem of the first of the five sections, and solved most of them. Then I worked with a tutor who looked through the rest of it and decided to work on something closer to the state of the art. I wouldn't say what I learned was better than SICP, but it was interesting.
- sgaur 18y agoPlease add me too
- KunQian 18y agoadd me please kunqian at live dot ca