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SICP and Why It Matters

Posted on 2012-11-21 by jcs

Brian Harvey, who has been teaching the Berkeley SICP course for 25 years has an interesting and moving tribute to the famous Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which he calls the best computer science book in the world. Irreal … Continue reading →

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SICP For The Kindle And iPad

Posted on 2011-09-25 by jcs

Long time readers know that I am a big fan of Abelson and Sussman’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and that I consider it the best book ever written about computer programming. I have the on-line version permanently bookmarked … Continue reading →

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SICP Under Attack?

Posted on 2011-08-07 by jcs

Vedant Kumar has a provocative post entitled SICP is Under Attack in which he laments the abandonment of SICP by several universities and especially by Berkeley, where he is a EE/CS student. Berkeley, it turns out, is replacing SICP with … Continue reading →

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