SICP Considered Harmful

Its not relevant to the industry, its badly written, and its considered harmful and detrimental to developing the skills of new programmers.  It should only be recommended for its historical value, so pretty much only if you plan to have career in academia.  Instead please recommend a book such as 'The C programming language' to newbies or ex web-designers looking to get a good foundation on the fundamentals.

I don't want to see SICP mentioned around here anymore or you will be reprimanded, please follow the lead of computer science institutions around the world and don't teach SICP anymore.  Thanks, and welcome to 2009.

>>80

Oh then I post again at >>36 with some facts and grammar and shit. I am so impressed with myself in 2009 right now.

Holy fuck I even linked to Paul Graham as a citation, that's like using the trolls troll to troll the trolls.  Pretty bad ass, no wonder I didn't have any sex that year.

>>33
Please enlighten me.

>>83
You're talking to a person who left eight months ago.

>>84
Nobody ever leaves /prog/, silly.

>>84
Even if he left someone else might know about it. UIJHBT.

>>86 NYJMUA

I have read SICP and learned good programming practice from it. I was unaware that people actually wrote programs in LISP/Scheme.

>>1

To answer your question, In C, the image library will return a pointer to a struct that contains each pixel represented as a struct.  From there, you have to decide what you want to do with it.  If you're trying to edit it, prepare to learn a lot of math.

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