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New ebook version of SICP

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 18:26

Haven't read it yet, but will, using this new Wizard Book!

http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/new-electronic-sicp/

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 18:29

Oh no! They removed the ``faggot quotes''!

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 18:50

Cool, although I liked the previous 2 other attempts as well.
Confirming what >>2 said was a bit disappointing.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 18:58

Isn't this like, against the license, at least for MIT. I guess in theory they could argue 'fair use', but still, I'm pretty sure the use of Online SICP requires you to not redistribute.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 19:14

>>4
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
It is sharing and remixing, for no commercial purpose,
by Abelson, Sussman & Sussman
So they are ok with the license.

I'm a bit disappointed for the lack of ``proper quotes'' too, though.

Name: reading my SICP today 2011-08-06 19:53

I am working through this version :) not finished chapter 1 yet, though.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 22:25

It looks very nice. Not enough words in a page for my liking though.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 23:12

>>6
ah fuck I suck at SICP.  maybe I am not meant to be programmer ;_;

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 0:10

>>8
You just need to spend time on it. Keep at it bro!

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 0:11

>>9
No. Do not encourage him. He was not meant to be a programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 1:43

>>10
`>implying that reading SICP will make you anything than a huge faggot

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 1:55

>>11
>imply my anus

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 2:38

>>11
polecat kebags, ``faggot!"

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 3:02

>>13
fuck you nigger fagstrum

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 4:48

This version and /prog/ version compared:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3792/sicps.png

I definitely don't like what they did with the diagrams. The font also makes it look like some cheap TEACH YOURSELF SCHEME IN 24 HOURS shit too.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 4:57

>>15
I definitely don't like what they did with the diagrams. The font also makes it look like some cheap TEACH YOURSELF SCHEME IN 24 HOURS shit too.
It is called "nextgen".

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 5:38

I got some PDF which is basically the online version (hyperlinks included). This new version just seems... faggy by comparison.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 5:53

>>17
Why do people still use PDF, which is inferior to hypertext?

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 8:02

>>15
Dunno, I think the new version looks fine. The /prog/ one looks too much TEX to me, and I've never liked how TEX's output looks.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 8:29

>>15
On a (small) screen, this version's font is clearer in my opinion.
The notes take too much space.
There's a typo on page 152.
I don't like the new diagrams either.
Page breaks are not distributed strategically.

If I knew TEX, I'd try fix something myself.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 8:29

>>19
New version looks like a comicbook.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 8:35

>>5
by Abelson, Sussman & Sussman
Shouldn't that be by Abelson, Sussman & Susswoman?

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 9:04

I just want to say that Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman with Julie Sussman sounds like a threesome doujin's name.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 13:16

>>22
with contributions from julie sussman

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-07 17:02

>>20
It looks like they incorporated the errata, which is good, but introduced a few of their own in the process.

Also the font is too big (or the page is too narrow, depending on how you look at it), forcing tons of hyphenation to the extent that it's distracting.

Good effort, average results. I wish someone would finish the /prog/ version though. It even has a nice vectored front cover.

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