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> For the love of god, please don't start out with How To Design Programs. Care to explain?
by silentbicycle 18y ago
> For the love of god, please don't start out with How To Design Programs.
Care to explain?
- speek 18y agoThe Design Template -> I don't have an issue with it per se, but it just frustrates me. If you've seen Donny Darko, the love/fear scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38N9QvsdzU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38N9QvsdzU) pretty much is how I feel about the design template. SICP is what I started with for scheme, and what I took away from it was "there is power in wishful thinking." After having read/watched SICP, going into HtDP was more like "Use the design recipe and everything you make will be easy." I find programming/computer science a little more romantic than that.