Beautiful Online SICP
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Beautiful Online SICP
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#2Downloadable PDF version here:
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#3perhaps only tangentially related but recently I began noting down beautiful typefaces I come across, the two used here are Inconsolata LGC and Linux Libertine O. do you guys have favorites?
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#4Very pretty...is it just a nicer version of the one MIT's SICP page links to?
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#5I actually prefer the square corners of the original link-structure diagrams to the rounded ones in this version; compare:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.htm...
http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e2.xhtml#g_t2_002...
However, the fact that they're not tiny and pixelated is definitely an improvement.
As for the content of SICP itself, it's extremely interesting and enlightening but perhaps encourages a little too much "abstraction-worship" --- not surprising given that computers were still getting faster exponentially when the book was first written.
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#6How would one compile this with higher contrast text? This is a wonderful refresh to an eternal programming classic.
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#7A lot more readable on the computer. I hope MIT Press doesn't complain.
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#8Sarabander's edition is definitely a huge credit to it's author: It isn't just a reprint of SICP; The text and it's font has been updated, many of the diagrams have been redone for clarity and the document and footnotes are hyperlinked.
If it's your ambition to follow in the footsteps of others or otherwise just prefer the classic Lisp-haqr experience, you can use a TexInfo version of SICP and have both the text and your REPL in Emacs: http://zv.github.io/note/sicp-in-texinfo
Also, just to pimp my own ride: I put together a SICP guide for new explorers of this great text: https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile
It contains both meta-information about which dialects of Lisps and languages are most suited to SICP, overviews of subchapters, helpful hints for those who are following along at home as well as answers to the exercises in Elisp, Guile scheme & Racket.
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#9absolutely beautiful. i have the dead tree version and i've grown tired of the times new roman font.
anyone know how `Figure 1.5: The tree-recursive process' is generated? it's not an image.
http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/1_002e2.xhtml#g_t1_002...
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#10Now that we're seeing WASM being supported, it would be awesome if code in the textbook runs in the browser.