[HN Gopher] Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP...
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       Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (2016)
        
       Author : boramalper
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-07-20 15:06 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
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       | eyelovewe wrote:
       | To me, this reads as an admission that software complexity leads
       | to lower determinacy and lower systemic coherence. That bottom up
       | design is dead, at least with regards to the industry they are
       | preparing people for. I still think that SICP teaches sound
       | thinking, as do compositional agglomerative syncretic approaches,
       | even if you never do write any systems in forth.
        
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