Name: Anonymous 2012-02-09 1:10
After a month or so of going through the SICP, playing with Scheme, and completing all the exercises (most in multiple ways; I want my programs to be short, simple, and pretty), I feel like I'm finally a true LISPer. And I view computer science entirely differently than I did back in CS 101 (dropped out of that due to boredom); if I may make the comparison, I'm Buddha after he starved and wasted away, burning away his physical impurities in the metaphysical sense. The SICP has made me a better person outside of my own CS work, too; I've actually felt inspired to help out members of my off-line community to learn CS, and I've donated ten copies of the Text to the local school district. I hear most public schools have poor libraries. I hope it reaches and transforms others in the way it has me.