On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 9:20:06 PM UTC+5:30, David Christensen wrote: > I mentioned SICP before. The concepts are great, but the Scheme > programming language and REPL environment aren't my favorite. If you're > serious about computer science and computer programming, read it first > and then choose what's next: > > http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
I guess I am the diagonally opposite corner: personally I enjoyed scheme (along with APL) more than any other language; SICP not so much However if the content of SICP calls you and not scheme the medium, here's SICP in python http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/ Well I suppose I am coming across as a python fanboy.. anyways... that's SICP in python -- if that calls you. Why SICP-the-book doesn't get SICP-the-contents: http://blog.languager.org/2013/08/applying-si-on-sicp.html I find the Friedman books better. On a more tangential note here are the "Tears of Donald Knuth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXdDEQveKw And a historian commenting on the same: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181633-the-tears-of-donald-knuth/fulltext Should give a picture of how CS has shifted in ½ a century -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/668cd205-865e-4507-90c1-7b1c5d27a...@googlegroups.com
