No, I want to but I have not given a try..it seems like read when you have nothing to do..but I might never be in that state..
Poll: Have you read SICP?
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#12If you want to read it and don't have a copy and want one in ePub format, you can snag it here: https://github.com/ieure/sicp
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#13How about another category: % of completed exercises? I read all of it but only did 1/3 of the exercises.
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#14I read it but didn't do most of the exercises, which amounts to 75% at most I guess
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#15I took 6.01, in python. Just missed out on SICP, but I'm going through all the exercises now.
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#16Yup. At Northwestern, the first course covers the first three chapters. I later went back (~5 years after graduation) and did the fourth chapter and its exercises.
I now have an instructors' guide as well, but still haven't convinced myself to do the fifth chapter, mainly because all of my FP is in SML these days. But I really should...
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#17I took 6.001.
talked with a couple of guys from MIT who took 6.001, and asked them if they'd read SICP. They looked at each other and laughed, and said something along the lines of "Haha, ostensibly. I mean, we turned in our homework." Does that represent your experience as well?
If that's a legitimate indicator of wider behavior on campus, then I can see why the professors might question the utility of that book in that setting.
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#18"Kinda started reading it but didn't get what the hype is all about".
I put it on my to-read list after reading Peter Norvig's review. I read maybe 2% of it and skimmed a lot more. While I'm sure I could learn quite a bit if I seriously studied the whole thing, I'm not sure it would be a good use of my time: most of the contents I already studied in college, though in a quite different approach. There are topics that I'm weak at, but if I decide to learn (say) compilation for real then I'd be better served by reading a book focused on compilation.
In other words, while SICP seems rather hardcore as an introduction to computer science, it feels rather unexciting as a review of my CS undergrad syllabus.
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#19If you're unsure what the OP is talking about, SICP stands for "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" aka "The Wizard Book". http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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#20I heard about it yesterday for the first time thanks to a submission on HN. I'll probably read it sometime in the near future.