Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Posted on 16 July 2018 by Harold Abelson

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade This long awaited revision contains changes throughout the text There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming There are new example sections on higher order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard. New Download Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [ Author ] Harold Abelson [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The book was awesome Abelson and Sussman have created a masterpiece It provides a great introduction to computer science The book contains a lot of back referencing and you need to understand previous material in order to grok what you re currently reading The exercises are key you can probably accomplish it without doing them, but they really, really help reinforcing the knowledge They are also fun to do.The book starts slowly It might seem a bit basic for the experience programmer, yet The book was awesome Abelson and Sussman have created a masterpiece It provides a great introduction to computer science The book contains a lot of back referencing and you need to understand previous material in order to grok what you re currently reading The exercises are key you can probably accomplish it without doing them, but they really, really help reinforcing the knowledge They are also fun to do.The book starts slowly It might seem a bit basic for the experience programmer, yet I still found it worth to work through the exercises and appreciate the fine points the authors are making It s worthy to note that the first 2 chapter out of 5 don t even introduce state They just elaborate a lot on functions and lists Chapter 3 becomesinterestin...The legendary SICP reminded me of the the Bible in many respects The first is that people say you ve got to read it It will change your life You ll learn to see the real beauty in programs You aren t a real programmer unless you ve read it Every software developer should be required to read it Oh and you have to do the exercises all 300 of them or you didn t get it Disclosure my study group skipped 10 exercises.The second similarity to the Bible is that many who champion this b The legendary SICP reminded me of the the Bible in many respects The first is that people say you ve got to read it It will change your life You ll learn to see the real beauty in programs You aren t a real programmer unless you ve read it Every software developer should be required to read it Oh and you have to do the exercises all 300 of them or you didn t get it Disclosure my study group skipped 10 exercises.The second similarity to the Bible is that many who champion this book don t seem to have read it I definitely had the same Have any of those people actually read thisfeeling several times during the year and a half it took to work through it During this I joined a chat room of SICP devotees I seemed to be the furthest along in the book The internet is littered with the Github repos and blogs of developers who ve started and aborted the book Third, the book was written long ago and it is sometimes difficu...I read this on the advice of Dr Eiselt, Dean at that time of the College of Computing, after asking him via email alright, I m taking classes and whatnot, but I want the Stygian deep I want to go down as far as I can I want and need to read those books which have shaped the great computer scientists before me, the real thing Having probed the shelves of computer science and mathematics since, I remain convinced he could have given no better advice to a precocious freshman Used for sever I read this on the advice of Dr Eiselt, Dean at that time of the College of Computing, after asking him via email alright, I m taking classes and whatnot, but I want the Stygian deep I want to go down as far as I can I want and need to read thos...A work of art SICP will make you a better programmer in the same way that reading Dostoevsky will make you a better writer.If you are a programmer or are majoring in computers in college in any shape, form, or fashion, read this book Let me reiterate If you re a programmer and you don t read this book you re worthless If you re a sys admin, and you wri...Nearly a decade ago when I first started college as a wide eyed computer science student, this book instilled a deep passion for programming into me To this day, I can pick up and reread any section of this book and that passion is reinvigorated There have been volumes written about the brilliance and beauty of this book by people smarter than me Every bit of this praise is deserved, and I do not need to add to that chorus I would instead like to mention a different facet of what makes this Nearly a decade ago when I first started college as a wide eyed computer science student, this book instilled a deep passion for programming into me To this day, I can pick up and reread any section of this book and that passion is reinvigorated There have been volumes written about the brilliance and beauty of this book by people smarter than me Every bit of this praise is deserved, and I do not need to add to that chorus I would instead like to mention a different facet of what makes this book so great This book is fun, this book makes the art of programming fun My favorite fiction books are by far and away the Harry Potter books I do not find the prose of these books all that great, the action isn t entirely amazing, and the neither the characters nor the plot are particularly special So what makes the Harry Potter books so grea...Imagine two sopho computer science majors in a dorm room late at night One of them, possibly under the influence of a recently decriminalized substance, turns to the other and asks, Have you ever thought about what a computer program is I mean, have you ever really thought about it This book is a good answer to that question The title is apt, it really is about the structure and interpretation of computer programs It s an enlightening read, but I write this as somebody who has been p Imagine two sopho computer science majors in a dorm room late at night One of them, possibly under the influence of a recently decriminalized substance, turns to the other and asks, Have you ever thought about what a computer program is I mean, have you ever really thought about it This book is a good answer to that question The title is apt, it really is about the structure and interpretation of computer programs It s an enlightening read, but I write this as somebody who has be...Twenty hours of video lecture by Abelson and Sussman are available through MIT Open CourseWare, though it is worth noting that these classes used the first edition of the textbook.Downloadable PDF version hereIn an ideal world, everybody learns Scheme as their first programming language and knows recursion, lambda, closure and multi paradigm programming as his her first step to programming The software of that world would beefficient,manageable,straightforward,readable and contains less bugs Unfortunately, this does not apply to most working engineers, including me.Brian Harvey link is right This is one of the best books ever written in computer science It uses a narrati In an ideal world, everybody learns Scheme as their first programming language and knows recursion, lambda, closure and multi paradigm programming as his her first step to programming The software of that world would beefficient,manageable,straightforward,readable and contains less bugs Unfortunately, this does not apply to most working engineers, including me.Brian Harvey link is right This is one of the best books ever written in computer science It uses a narrative structure to explore the formalism for the foundation of computer programming languages It amazes me how the book can be done in such a beautiful way that reading the book does not feel like reading a textbook at all The Berkeley videos at YouTube makes the lectures freely available on the web, which are really helpful for reading this book.The book is a wonderful exposure of the fundamentals of functional programming way of thinking, providing complete implementation o...

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16 July 2018

Harold Abelson