I was first introduced to the "wishful thinking" idea when watching the SICP lectures. It's introduced quite early on in lesson 1 or 2. It really changed how I

I was first introduced to the "wishful thinking" idea when watching the SICP lectures. It's introduced quite early on in lesson 1 or 2. It really changed how I approach new problems and now I use it all the time. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... In a way "dreamcode" is basically the same: you determine what you want to build and infer the API dependencies that you will need. It makes sure that all the API that you're going to build are going to be used.