Re: Book questions
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
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