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ok, I was a little groggy when I posted and I do realize thats not graduate level math, however there are exersizes which are much harder in that chapter which I was too lazy to find.
Im not trying to shoot down the idea of learning Lisp/Scheme, I do think its worth learning as beginners first language. But SICP's audience are those with university level math and those who want to understand theory of algorithms, I just think people should be made aware of that instead of recommending it as though it was on the same level as most other beginners programming books.
>why not just recommend something like the Little Schemer?
Little Schemer
Actually I would recommend "Simply Scheme" which is the concepts in SICP taught in an easier more conventional way. I tried reading "Little Schemer", it was ok but I had a hard time following it, I should try and read it again.