Damn, I was using this just a few weeks ago! Even working through the print version, it's helpful to copy and paste starter code for the exercises.
Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
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Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#12If you just need the text, such as for a research project, the original unofficial Texinfo version of SICP might be easier than going from the HTML version: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/
Lytha Ayth's Texinfo conversion of SICP (plus new ASCII art, to be usable on low-powered computers that couldn't handle the HTML well) was done in 2001 or earlier.
I suspect Ayth's version was consistent with the original intent of the authors and MIT Press in releasing the HTML version -- which seemed to be "we're making this rough Web hypertext free, or you can buy the paper book". (One of the SICP authors told me Ayth's Texinfo version was "probably a good thing".)
BTW, since then, I've noticed some people have made and hosted versions that started with Ayth's Texinfo, including redrawing figures as non-ASCII, and providing polished "camera ready" PDF. I don't know what the SICP authors or publisher think about those. The SICP authors are gems, and SICP was an early textbook to be released free for the Web, with hypertext and wide accessibility, helping set precedent for others. I'd be very sad if anyone eventually regrets that (e.g., maybe the publisher trying to maximize revenue so they can fund more great books).
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#13I thought you mean there is a SICP with html as the teaching programming language instead of Lisp
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#14I never finished it, but I started porting SICP to HTML5, with an in-browser interpreter: https://jaredkrinke.github.io/learn-scheme/
I have a hard copy of the book though. I couldn't really read, maybe I didn't try harder. English is not my native language. TLDR; Will get the text, tokenize the words, index against a standard dictionary, go on from there.
Oops, sorry! I must have completely misread your OP. I thought you were reading the book, although I now see that is definitely not what you were looking for.
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a hard copy of the book though. I couldn't really read, maybe I didn't try harder. English is not my native language. TLDR; Will get the text, tokenize the words, index against a standard dictionary, go on from there.
Oops, sorry! I must have completely misread your OP. I thought you were reading the book, although I now see that is definitely not what you were looking for.
You don't have to be sorry for anything :)
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#16If you just need the text, such as for a research project, the original unofficial Texinfo version of SICP might be easier than going from the HTML version: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ Lytha Ayth's Texinfo conversion of SICP (plus new ASCII art, to be usable on low-powered computers that couldn't handle the HTML well) was done in 2001 or earlier. I suspect Ayth's version was consistent with the original in…
Thanks a lot.
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#17HTML5 version that is designed to look like pdf version https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#18I thought you mean there is a SICP with html as the teaching programming language instead of Lisp
HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language, and unlike CSS it's not Turing complete. So, you can't really program in it. Also, to be extra pedantic. SICP uses MIT Scheme, which technically _is_ a lisp in the sense that all scheme's are lisps, but that's also like saying a square is a rectangle.
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#19I wrote MIT Press about it, got this back: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...
Re: Ask HN: Where to find HTML version of SICP?
#20HTML5 version that is designed to look like pdf version https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ https://github.com/sarabander/sicp
Actual PDF from MIT: (I assume they’re happy to let anyone use it)
https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
There’s the set of the 1986 lectures on MIT’s Open CourseWare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...