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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a classic textbook for learning how to program. The language used in the book is Scheme, a dialect of Lisp.

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I'm reading SICP, and I don't understand how Lamé's Theorem gives us an estimate for the order-of-growth of Euclid's algorithm (the relevant passage is below). It would make sense to me if the ...
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I'm currently reading through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). During the course of that book, the lesson of "you can optimize recursive procedures by writing them as ...
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According to this As opposed to the constraints in other kinds of engineering, where the constraints of what you can build are the constraints of physical systems, the constraints imposed in ...
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I found an interesting quote in SICP that I think is highly relevant in object oriented design: We see that, in general, a type may have more than one subtype. Triangles and quadrilaterals, for ...
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I'm doing a php MVC project using code igniter. I have two models, a and b. Each class contains four functions (insert, delete, update and view) and their implementations are almost the same with ...
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Until now, I always believed that you should learn programming languages that make you do low-level stuff (e.g. C) to understand what's really happening under the hood and how the computer really ...
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From the reference of berkeley's version of sicp text, It is mentioned that: Expressing programs as sequence operations helps us design programs that are modular. That is, our designs are ...
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I am a third year bachelor student in a software engineering program, and I brought up the idea of reading SICP to an adviser to gain a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the principles ...
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I've been thinking about trying to get through the SICP again, this time well-armed with a better idea of what the SICP is meant to accomplish, and being older and wiser than my first attempt back in ...
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I am starting to learn Lisp, using the SICP book. The authors mention that a procedure (i.e. function) can be recursive or iterative. Additionally, the process those procedures will generate will also ...
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Are there any practical references (with actual examples) for getting started implementing a small, lazy functional programming language with graph reduction? A reference that included the lexing and ...
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In SICP 2nd Edition section 2.2.3, the authors have the following code: (define (even-fibs n) (accumulate cons nil (filter even? (map fib ...
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I am going through Abelson and Sussman (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and I am a little confused about when normal order evaluation is used and when applicative order evaluation ...
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I have read that SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) is hard and HTDP (How To Design Programs) is better as an introductory course. I would say I am fairly good in maths but not ...
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