SICP in Info

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I consider Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) one of the best—if not the best—computer science books ever written. I was an experienced software engineer when I first read it and I still learned a huge amount from it.

If you haven’t read it, you really owe it to yourself to do so. It’s really about more than Lisp so even if you’re not a Lisper, it’s sure to teach you a lot of wonderfully useful things. There’s a lot of resources for it including a cleaned up PDF and EPUB3 but a good place to start is the original book in HTML that the authors and MIT press put up. In 1981, Abelson and Sussman gave a series of lectures at HP based on the book. You can get videos of those lectures here. I can’t recommend that you watch them enough.

The point of this post is that now you have another way of reading the book: it’s available as an Info file that you can load from Melpa. Load the file and you can enjoy SICP from the comfort of Emacs.

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