#sicp — Public Fediverse posts

Holy cow! The old and the new meet:

https://sicp.sourceacademy.org

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs with #Scheme and #JS compared side by side!

It seems it even accepts some sort of Python, Java, and C answers as well, I'll have to dig in.

#SICP

MIT's #OCW blesses us with #video #lectures on #SICP, because who doesn’t want to spend their weekends watching 30-year-old content? 📼💾 Enjoy the riveting experience of learning #Lisp from professors who were young when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. 🦖💻
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video_galleries/video-lectures/ #MIT #education #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Another weird one: my copy of Abelson, Sussman & Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (13th pressing, 1985) comes from the library of the "Psychological Institute of Heidelberg University". I have so many questions. #pyschology #scheme #programming #heidelberg #sicp

Have you read your SICP today?

#Tomodachilife #meme #SICP

🚀🎩 Behold, the miraculous 7-line wonder that lets you toss together a Turing-complete #language in less time than it takes to microwave your leftover pizza! 🤯🥧 Who knew that the secret to computational enlightenment was simply reading the cliff notes of #SICP while pretending real-world programming languages aren't like, a thing. 🙄📖
https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/ #TuringComplete #ProgrammingInnovation #QuickDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

@vnikolov @spook
I would recommend looking into Scheme, which is a revised, modern Lisp invented in the 70s.

While imperative style is prominent in Lisp, it is commonly frowned upon in Scheme, which still allows imperative style but encourages functional programming.

The canonical book is SICP, https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html

#SICP
#lisp
#scheme
#guile

Happy Birthday Gerry Sussman 🎂

See the keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the fourteenth RacketCon at https://youtu.be/_2qXIDO-cWw

#lisp #SICP

@davidrevoy please let's just all go back to the original book of spells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs

#SICP #lisp #scheme #programming

> This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer.
> I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html

When your boss and all the tech influencers push you to offload your creativity and understanding to an #LLM. It's hard to remember this sometimes.

#sicp #functionalprogramming #scheme #lisp

Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures

https://github.com/felipap/sicp-code

#HackerNews #MIT #SICP #Code #1986 #Video #Lectures #Programming #Education #OpenSource

@superketchup @splatt9990 a classmate in the #CS program I flunked out of in college once told me: "Other #programming languages teach you how to program. #Lisp teaches you how to think." I've been thinking about that statement for the last 25 years, and every few years I attempt to dust off #emacs and my copy of #sicp to no avail. But I'm never going to get any thinkier unless I start working at it now.

@rauschma It is six months until April. How about we collaborate on a type-level typescript edition of SICP, to drop on 2026-04-01?

#javascript #js #typescript #ts #sicp

Gerald Sussmann ist auch anwesend. Oh Mann, #SICP hat mein Leben verändert...

I'm on to my third programming example in #Lua : calculating square roots using the Heron of Alexandria trial and error method. This time it only took me an hour and a half to wrestle with the correct syntax. I originally wanted to make it a recursive algorithm like in the #sicp lecture but maybe for that I should really just use #lisp.

Kompotov Programerski Bralni Krožek #??

https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/13fb3e90-013a-4875-920f-3b1815ed0c3e

Kompotov Programerski Bralni Krožek #??

https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/4c7af9e7-112c-4e82-ac8b-c2c9556789c1

Kompotov Programerski Bralni Krožek #??

https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d38b31c0-8fb3-469e-a778-3bcf89428b12

Nowadays, I rarely buy printed books, even more rarely ones on computer science topics. Very few CS books deserve to be bought, and for those, the printed edition is a must because they are holy like the Bible. They need to be touched, meditated upon, read, and read again.
#SICP is one of them, and I finally got it.