@gosha It's good that you've got a good collection...

@gosha It's good that you've got a good collection so you can jump around between them.

I read SCIP every second year, and each time I find new interesting bits that I've missed. It's a good one to read and re-read. It's approachable, but it's dense.

Have fun in Lisp world! ✊

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Gosha

@neauoire Thank you! It's reassuring to know that SICP is approachable, feels a bit daunting at first glance.

15 January at 22:15 | Open on merveilles.town

Anders Conbere

@gosha @neauoire I find the later half of SICP gets a little in the math weeds for my very practically oriented engineer brain (says the person with a degree in algebras, but we all make mistakes when young!).

Alternatively I find little scheme an absolute joy of a puzzle, but also not super practical.

Is there a good lisp book that’s more like “how to design computer programs”?

15 January at 22:18 | Open on merveilles.town

Alastair M. D. Touw

@gosha @neauoire I also found SICP to be a bit daunting at first, mostly due to all the mathematically-themed problems (MIT students, eh?). The recorded lectures from 1986 helped me get through some of the material. They're available on MIT's OpenCourseWare. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video_galleries/video-lectures/

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