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Hello everyone, author here. Sorry for forgetting to enable billing on appengine - the page should be displaying now. I shared Interactive SICP with HN last ye

by zodiac 13y ago

Hello everyone, author here. Sorry for forgetting to enable billing on appengine - the page should be displaying now. I shared Interactive SICP with HN last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860370), and thought it was time to share it again. Since that time, I've - added more sections of the book - replaced the javascript scheme engine - added mathjax - made the evaluation asynchronous (to avoid freezing the UI during long computations) - improved dependency management between blocks of code - separated out the interactive library - I should be releasing it soon! What I haven't been able to do is to make the entire book interactive due to a lack of time. I was thinking of using indiegogo to pay myself and my co-author so that we can finish the book. What do you guys think?

krosaen 13y ago
Thanks for making this! It seems like I can't skip ahead to further chapters and start working through it there - for instance if I start here: http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/3-0-modularity-objects-and-state.html http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/3-0-modularity-objects-and-s... and click the right arrow, it brings me back to the beginning. Is that by design to enforce that I work my way through from the very beginning? One reason I'd like to start mid-way is I've read this book a number of times, getting more out of it each time, and I don't feel like spending the time on the basics.
- zodiac 13y ago
  I think it's a broken link. Try clicking the home icon on the side panel and navigating through that.
vinchuco 13y ago
Hello author. Thanks author. Suggested feature: press right = go to next page.
angusmacphail 13y ago
Thanks! I must have missed that one last year, but I've thought a project like this should exist for years. I'd be willing to contribute to an indiegogo campaign to support this.
lmg643 13y ago
i would definitely keep running with this. would def support. iconic text, and this makes it easy to dive in and play with. perhaps the examples appear in a mini-IDE on the right, where you click the example, it shows up in the IDE. click compile button, and it will execute the sample.
deckiedan 13y ago
Very very cool. One thing that I would like would be if 'tab' jumped to the next example/input area?

by zodiac 13y ago

krosaen 13y ago

Thanks for making this! It seems like I can't skip ahead to further chapters and start working through it there - for instance if I start here: http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/3-0-modularity-objects-and-state.html http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/3-0-modularity-objects-and-s... and click the right arrow, it brings me back to the beginning. Is that by design to enforce that I work my way through from the very beginning? One reason I'd like to start mid-way is I've read this book a number of times, getting more out of it each time, and I don't feel like spending the time on the basics.

zodiac 13y ago
I think it's a broken link. Try clicking the home icon on the side panel and navigating through that.

vinchuco 13y ago

Hello author. Thanks author. Suggested feature: press right = go to next page.

angusmacphail 13y ago

Thanks! I must have missed that one last year, but I've thought a project like this should exist for years. I'd be willing to contribute to an indiegogo campaign to support this.

lmg643 13y ago

i would definitely keep running with this. would def support. iconic text, and this makes it easy to dive in and play with. perhaps the examples appear in a mini-IDE on the right, where you click the example, it shows up in the IDE. click compile button, and it will execute the sample.

deckiedan 13y ago

Very very cool. One thing that I would like would be if 'tab' jumped to the next example/input area?