Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? • Hacker News Board

tptacek wrote: post #4

Isn't there some Web 2.0 app that organizes book clubs like this? I have a couple books (signal processing, compilers, programmable logic) that I'd really like to work through with a couple people; what I really want to do is get together every other week or so over beers in Chicago, though.

http://www.booksprouts.com/

Designed for exactly this kind of scenario, and recently launched.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together?

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Post by chrisconley » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 5:08 PM UTC

chrisconley wrote: post #29

Freenode channel ##hn-sicp has been setup for weekly meetups and/or ongoing discussion. I also set up http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp for arranging discussion times and any other miscellaneous things if needed.

The Freenode channel has been changed to ##SICP

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Post by vlad » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 5:53 PM UTC

I'm in!

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Post by steveeq1 » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 7:59 PM UTC

Might I make a recommendation? Start with "The Little Schemer" and then graduate to "The Seasoned Schemer". Here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...

It takes you more step-by-step than SICP and once you get more practice with those books, SICP will be much more paletable.

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Post by daniel-cussen » Mon, Jan 12, 2009, 7:29 AM UTC

I got through it in a sense. I attempted every problem of the first of the five sections, and solved most of them. Then I worked with a tutor who looked through the rest of it and decided to work on something closer to the state of the art. I wouldn't say what I learned was better than SICP, but it was interesting.

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Post by sgaur » Mon, Jan 12, 2009, 10:09 AM UTC

Please add me too