Need Some Motivation to Continue Reading SICP

Greetings fellow pursuers of Satori,
I'm halfway through SICP and did almost all exercises but now that I've reached chapter 4 (interpreters), I just can't be assed to continue.

I didn't have a lot of problems in the previous chapters, in fact, I got through them at a more or less steady pace in 3 months with a break every so often. However, I eventually reached chapter 4 and suddenly BAM, all motivation to continue left me. Now I need days to do just one exercise, if I even continue reading SICP at all (maybe once a month?), and skipping them entirely is more tempting than ever. I can already feel my memory of the book waning. Every time I force myself to read on, I have to reread lots and lots of text which of course only turns me off more. I guess that interpreters and their intricacies don't interest me one bit.

My problem is that I want to finish the book before doing anything else. I feel that there are still useful lessons to be learned, plus chapter 5 seems interesting again. Oh, and I want to finish what I start at least once. The question is: how do I get motivated?

tl;dr: stuck at sicp chapter 4, don't give a shit about interpreters, how to get motivated to finish the book?

>>40
NYJMUA

>>41
I have probably been trolled but here you go.

That was an easy one, I'm not even >>40

>>40,42
I bet you these two supposed different posters are actually one and the same

>>43
And you are also >>40 and >>42, I suppose?

>>44
Not at all. If that's what you believe, then I think you need to reexamine your assumptions.

>>40-46

same person

>>1-46

Chris, stop talking to yourself again.

I had never heard of these lectures before, I'm going to have to give them a look in my spare time.

btw, needs moar seeders!

>>48
You can download all the video lectures here: http://www.archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp

moar
*cringe*

>>1
Don't read SICP.

Computer science people only like it because they write over 9000 interpreters in it.

>>50
I'm interpreter.

>>51
That's what she said

>>49
thanks, I had been using the torrents from the book's site, which were taking forever!

SICP had been on my list of things to do/read for a while, and these lectures have just bumped them up to the top.  The first one especially was fantastic!  I had never really thought about alot of the concepts the way Abelson described then.

>>53
Yes. Abelson is aweosme as well as THE SUSSMAN. Also am I the only one that noticed Abelson being a bit nervous explaining things during the first lecture?

>>54
awesome*

>>54,55
I noticed that too. I imagine it's because of the cameras, since he's done the lecture before that. THE SUSSMAN on the other hand was _cool^asice.

>>49
This needs to be digitally restored and remastered.

>>54
Yeah he definately seems on edge, which endeared him to me any more

>>54
Everyone is nervous during their first time.

>>56
Sussman was literally cooler than the other side of the pillow, as it were.

I'm going to bump one interesting thread every day, and you're going to like it.

I'm going to sage one bumped thread every day, and you're going to like it.

>>61
I'm going to cause one classic thread to be spoiled every day
Thank you very much, I look forward to it

>>63
How did you get that upside down ``I''?

>>64
How did you get that rightside up ``^o''?

>>65
How did you get that leftside ´?

>>48
They are all on youtube
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