[HN Gopher] I made a course page for anyone interested in taking...
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       I made a course page for anyone interested in taking SICP in future
        
       Author : temple_os
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-10-26 15:20 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (romanbird.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (romanbird.github.io)
        
       | masukomi wrote:
       | a) yay b) I'm surprised i don't see mention of racket in here.
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       | My understanding is that their implementation of MIT scheme + the
       | VERY beginner friendly aspects of Racket's Dr. Racket editor make
       | it the best place for folks to work on this course's code.
       | Especially since so few of them will have had scheme experience.
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       | I certainly found it nice.
        
       | xdavidliu wrote:
       | I self-studied the entire book and did all the problems around
       | the beginning of Covid.
       | 
       | The biggest roadblock I found was the "picture language" problems
       | in chapter 2 didn't have an obvious implementation of "painters"
       | in MIT scheme. There was some libraries I found in 25-year old
       | 6.001 course webpages, but they were not functional.
       | 
       | Fortunately, there was a recent Racket library that was
       | specifically designed for that chapter of SICP.
        
         | tmtvl wrote:
         | I never did the SICP picture language exercises, but the book
         | Concrete Abstractions* has some very similar exercises, but
         | done through a simple library that outputs EPS.
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         | * https://gustavus.edu/mcs/max/concrete-abstractions.html
        
       | temple_os wrote:
       | It's modelled off the Berkeley 61A lectures from 2011, before
       | they switched away from Scheme. It collects material strewn
       | around dead links and abandoned course pages and puts it in an
       | easy to digest format, with all the materials you need provided
       | in a repo.
        
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