Solved exercises from the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a computer science textbook written by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.
- It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming - recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation.
- Read more about the book here here.
- Read the book here (It's freely available btw).
- It provides intuition into different programming paradigms and builds foundation for more advanced concepts.
- It doesn't dive deep into the details of a single programming language, rather it teaches how to reason about the programming process. It has given me profound insight into how computer programs are formed.
- There are 100s of exercise. Each and every one of those teaches an important new idea. That's a lot of ideas.
- On the off-chance, you may also find the answer to life, the universe and everything.
- Still unconvinced? Read Brian Harvey's article Why SICP Matters. And Peter Norvig's review on SICP.
- If you know me, you have probably heard all of this. You might also be convinced that I am part of a cult, which I assure you, I am.
- I used Drracket for the first 2 chapters of SICP. It's super simple to use and you will be able to focus completely on the exercises. Here's the installation guide.
- Later, I shifted to using Emacs since I have always wanted to. I started out with Doom Emacs and it is super fun. Here's a guide on how to get started with it. Here are some useful shortcuts I use for solving the exercises.
