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Simply Scheme is now available online

48 points by soundsop 17y ago

pasbesoin 17y ago
There are two instances of link http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/match.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/match.html which does not resolve. Examining the link construction on that page, it is apparent that the link should instead be the following, which does resolve http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch16/match.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch16/match.html
- pasbesoin 17y ago
  One of the authors responded, so I'm guessing this will be fixed soon.
Derferman 17y ago
I took CS61A with one of the authors of the book, Brian Harvey (CS61A is the introductory computer science course here at Berkeley). While I loved the class and enjoyed having Harvey as my professor, I found Simply Scheme a bit too limited and simplistic. SICP covers more material in greater detail. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
- tjr 17y ago
  Agreed, though SS stands out by including a full-page photograph of Alonzo Church. :-)
- 321abc 17y ago
  From Simply Scheme's preface: "The only trouble with SICP is that it was written for MIT students, all of whom love science and are quite comfortable with formal mathematics. Also, most of the students who use SICP at MIT have already learned to program computers before they begin. As a result, many other schools have found the book too challenging for a beginning course. We believe that everyone who is seriously interested in computer science must read SICP eventually. Our book is a prequel; it's meant to teach you what you need to know in order to read that book successfully."
Confusion 17y ago
If there was a single PDF with the entire book, I might take a look at it, but this 'one pdf per chapter' stuff is annoying as hell. I'll stick with my PDF of SICP until I get sick of it and decide to order it.
- rits 17y ago
  All you need is curl, pdflatex with pdfpages, and fresh dir. curl -O http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch[00-27].pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch[00-27].pdf && pdflatex -jobname ssch-all-in-one "\documentclass{article}\usepackage{pdfpages}\begin{document}\includepdfmerge{$(for x in ssch??.pdf; do echo -n $x, -, ; done)}\end{document}"
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48 points by soundsop 17y ago

There are two instances of link http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/match.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/match.html which does not resolve. Examining the link construction on that page, it is apparent that the link should instead be the following, which does resolve http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch16/match.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch16/match.html

pasbesoin 17y ago
One of the authors responded, so I'm guessing this will be fixed soon.

Derferman 17y ago

I took CS61A with one of the authors of the book, Brian Harvey (CS61A is the introductory computer science course here at Berkeley). While I loved the class and enjoyed having Harvey as my professor, I found Simply Scheme a bit too limited and simplistic. SICP covers more material in greater detail. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

tjr 17y ago
Agreed, though SS stands out by including a full-page photograph of Alonzo Church. :-)
321abc 17y ago
From Simply Scheme's preface: "The only trouble with SICP is that it was written for MIT students, all of whom love science and are quite comfortable with formal mathematics. Also, most of the students who use SICP at MIT have already learned to program computers before they begin. As a result, many other schools have found the book too challenging for a beginning course. We believe that everyone who is seriously interested in computer science must read SICP eventually. Our book is a prequel; it's meant to teach you what you need to know in order to read that book successfully."

Confusion 17y ago

If there was a single PDF with the entire book, I might take a look at it, but this 'one pdf per chapter' stuff is annoying as hell. I'll stick with my PDF of SICP until I get sick of it and decide to order it.

rits 17y ago
All you need is curl, pdflatex with pdfpages, and fresh dir. curl -O http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch[00-27].pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/pdf/ssch[00-27].pdf && pdflatex -jobname ssch-all-in-one "\documentclass{article}\usepackage{pdfpages}\begin{document}\includepdfmerge{$(for x in ssch??.pdf; do echo -n $x, -, ; done)}\end{document}"

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