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

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

#21

Post by thehickmans » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:25 PM UTC

This sounds like a good way to keep motivated, having tried and failed to get through SICP on my own. Count me in.

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

#22

Post by Anon84 » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

weekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.

I'm in.

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

#23

Post by Anon84 » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:31 PM UTC

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.

The closest site I know that does something similar is http://www.MeetUp.com

You can probably create a "Chicago Hacker Meetup" and start scheduling meetings.

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

#24

Post by bprater » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:31 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

weekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.

Getting folks on an email list to announce the bat-time and bat-channel might be the way to go.

Otherwise, everyone will completely forget.

Anyone have a quick service that allows folks to create a very simple and small email list of folks?

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

#25

Post by alnayyir » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:34 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

weekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.

I'm in.

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

#26

Post by dlimeb » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:35 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #3

I'm also in! My copy is being shipped at the moment, though. Should arrive around 3th Februar :/

I'm in as well, and my copy is being shipped too :) Ordered it a few days ago.

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

#27

Post by arasakik » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

bprater wrote: post #24

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

weekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.

Getting folks on an email list to announce the bat-time and bat-channel might be the way to go. Otherwise, everyone will completely forget. Anyone have a quick service that allows folks to create a very simple and small email list of folks?

If you use chatterous.com you'll get your own room that you can hook Email or IM into. You'll also get a one-click url that will bring you to web chat.

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

#28

Post by macmac » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 10:56 PM UTC

I am in!

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

#29

Post by chrisconley » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 11:00 PM UTC

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.

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

#30

Post by sharkbrainguy » Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 11:04 PM UTC

silentbicycle wrote: post #16

sharkbrainguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html should work fine until then

The texinfo SICP ( http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ ) is good too, if you're working in Emacs.

I am, thanks!