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Has anyone ever tried to read through SICP on a Kindle or other e-reader? Or would it be pointless to read through the book without a REPL/command line next to it?
As someone with fine arts background, does anyone have a suggestion for a text to get me quickly caught up on the math required for SICP?
It doesn't really require any math… some exercises and examples do require math, but you can just skip them. The first chapter has a lot more of that than the rest. It's very much not essential. To give an example, the hardest math I can remember is one exercise where they ask you to _prove_ the equation listed if you search for "closed form" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number . I'm relatively sure that…
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Folks, you don't need proprietary software or an iThing to get help with SICP. Hop on #scheme on freenode and check out http://schemers.org/ for resources.
I do love IRC, but what Understudy gives you is a one-to-one relationship with another person who cares. It means that Thursday evening, when you're tired, it's easier to pick yourself up and work, because doing so gets you a _better_conversation_ on Saturday. I'm a cellist - this comes from private music lessons (and also karate). See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_Sigma_Problem . In that study, the med…
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I believe there is a language for Racket which has what you need in it, I used that when I got to the picture language bit. Check it out here: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
This works great, with one caveat: the picture language in SICP has built-in primitive images such as "wave" and "rogers". The DrRacket SICP package has only one primitive image, "einstein".
The article recommends mit-scheme. Anyone know how to get that working as a Sublime Text build? From what I can tell, to invoke mit-scheme on a file, you redirect stdin, a la: mit-scheme This doesn't play so nicely with the ST2 build system, which seems to assume the input will be simply be a filename arg. E.g., it's assuming you can do: mit-scheme foo.scm
Perhaps create a script that does just that? #!/bin/sh mit-scheme < $@