{"id":9224,"date":"2020-10-20T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2020-10-20T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:56:58","slug":"the-wizard-book-cover-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9224","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard Book Cover Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you probably know that <i>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs<\/i>, SICP, is also called \u201cThe Wizard Book.\u201d A glace at its cover explains the alternate name but Conor Hoekstra has a more thorough explanation of the cover:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0vnRZN5GB0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all tongue-in-cheek, of course, but it does provide an opportunity to once again urge any of you who have not read it to do so. I promise you that no matter how experienced you are, SICP will teach you new things and change the way you think about programming.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/sicp\/index.html\">book<\/a> for free and if you prefer a more passive experience, there\u2019s a complete set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB63C06FAF154F047\">lecture videos<\/a> that Sussman and Abelson gave at HP in 1986. Both are very much worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you probably know that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, SICP, is also called \u201cThe Wizard Book.\u201d A glace at its cover explains the alternate name but Conor Hoekstra has a more thorough explanation of the cover: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,10,31],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor","tag-scheme","tag-sicp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}