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SICP

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-14 22:59

My copy of SICP just came in the mail. What should I keep in mind while working through it? Any specific advice?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-14 23:00

You can likely reach the cookie jar, now?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-14 23:13

>>2
Anything else?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-14 23:33

Why did you buy it? SICP is available for free online.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-14 23:49

>>4
Maybe he wants to support the author's work.

>>1
Yes you could read it, master the lang., then donate it to local library so THEY don't have to buy it?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 0:30

is smart. Sometimes. :)

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 0:31

>>1
there will be a distinct lack of python code which will cause you many problems

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 1:43

FIRST TIME SICP READING RULES
1. Do the exercises or you a scrub.
2. Watch the online lectures at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ as you read.
3. Hum Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring while reading.
4. Post on /prog/ if you get stuck: it is a community full of "helpful" and "knowledgeable" people.
5. Read the footnotes.
6. Once you start reading SICP, you cannot masturbate until you finish it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 1:52

>>8

CAN I SKIP STEP 1,3-6 AND JUST WATCH THE LECTURES?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 2:18

>>9
You can skip 3.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 2:28

>>9
One day Sussman came before Joel Moses, and spake thusly: "Master, I have condensed the teachings into a single tome. Through it those who are ignorant of the nature of things might grow in understanding, as a child drinking milk."

Moses glanced through the manuscript. He then took from his desk a hedge trimmer and cut it in half. Sussman took the remains and went away, shamefaced.

Several seasons later, Sussman came before Moses again, and spake thusly: "Master, I have condensed the teachings into twenty hours of lecture. Through it those who are wholly ignorant of the nature of things might grow in understanding, as an child eating curd." Thereupon he performed for Moses the twenty hours of lecture in one sitting. Having at last grown silent, Moses responded: "The lectures are like the curd of white cow of Snow Mountain, the text is like its milk. A child may not be able to digest the milk, but it can digest the curd. I will give you charge over the initiates."

In this manner 6.001 was created.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-15 3:24

>>9
You can skip 6, but only if you masturbate to SICP

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