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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Post by sdwa »

ashton314 wrote: post #4

This book more than any other has made me the programmer I am. The hardest part about telling people about this books was how to find it. +1 to the guy with the short URL to this PDF.

I'm a relative late comer to programming and having read the first 3 chapters within a year or two of starting to program "in earnest", I echo your sentiments. I feel like it really taught me how to think like a programmer. I should really finish it.

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Post by pixelmonkey »

I took a one-week SICP course with 5 or 6 other professional programmers last year. It was amazing. I wrote about my personal motivation for doing so here:

https://amontalenti.com/2018/08/26/sicp-expanding

As for an update: SICP was as good as I expected and definitely makes a professional programmer regain some love for the art and magic of computer science. (However, the book is a hard read without a guide. But it's really fun if you alternate between coding and reading, by using a local Racket & DrRacket install.)

One can find recorded courses from MIT with the SICP authors on YouTube, so that may be one way to do this from home.

Hal Abelson was recently interviewed about the lasting influence of the book in this podcast. It's a good conversation:

https://pca.st/wmrdiyvq

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Post by Recursing »

The ebook on https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/ seems to be inaccessible, trying to fetch it via git lfs gives "This repository is over its data quota. Purchase more data packs to restore access."

Does anybody know where I can/should host a copy?

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Post by Gusen »

ttul wrote: post #17
Gusen wrote: post #16

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WTF is this?

This is who our politicians really are. Read the PDF. This is not fiction.

Watch the Buffalo Police illegally seize my apartment at 307 Summer. This was done for child rapist Henry Porter.

Here is the video. See pages 7-10 for more...

18JanCh4_KnockToEnd.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N2mozGdPD7HMWELjRhvIZ94eBLj...

Transcript of the event:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/192B7tZa3b23Ab0UkSLGqNuLBUrD...

This is the tip of the iceberg.

Full 84 page document [updated 9Sep]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...

Re: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

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Post by Lammy »

The contents of the book are wonderful, but I can't stop admiring the TeX typesetting itself. It's startling how effortless it is to read this document compared to 99% of Web-based reading I do every day. The things that stand out to me most are the lack of vertical whitespace "rivers" due to the smart kerning & tracking, the small-caps for technical initialisms like 'HTML', and the beautiful beautiful Garamond of the body text. I should use LaTeX more :)
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