Most of the code from the book is also available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465
Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
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Re: Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
#12i watched the lecture series during the pandemic and commented on many of the youtube videos. in at least one instance, a library function is used on the board that is not compatible with the current function signature in mit scheme.
Oh no.
I suppose it is something to do with the fact that it has been, what, almost 40 years since the lectures?
The fact that most of the code would still work is a miracle. That wouldn't work for, say, Java (which didn't exist in 1986). Nor C++. Nor Javascript (also not there back then). Fortran and C might be able to pull it off (but barely).
Remember, we didn't have computers worth the name back then. Shoot, we didn't even have dirt yet, just rocks.
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#13In the first lecture, Abelson says Computer Science is neither a science nor is it really about computers. Considering the current ML paradigm, maybe CS has finally earned its name as a science.
What about the current ML paradigm makes it a science?
Observing and testing phenomena we don't understand.
Re: Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
#14If you are into SICP, you would probably like a nicely formatted html version of the book: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml#SEC_Conte... And also this: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp
The nicely formatted SICP is also available in downloadable formats.
EPUB - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/blob/master/sicp.epu...
PDF - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/raw/master/sicp.pdf
Re: Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
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#16There's also this interesting study about the difficulty and time requirement of SICP's exercises:
https://lockywolf.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/solving-sicp/
The math stuff is brutal.
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#17would be better if you could just use AI to re-do those particular scenes in the video series..
why can't you?
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#18would be better if you could just use AI to re-do those particular scenes in the video series..
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#19would be better if you could just use AI to re-do those particular scenes in the video series..
I'd been hoping to do just this, but don't quite have the resources.
Re: Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
#20If you are into SICP, you would probably like a nicely formatted html version of the book: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml#SEC_Conte... And also this: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp
Moreover, you can have SICP inside emacs by just downloading a package from Melpa: