Progress: 15/356 exercises

This repository is me working through all the exercises in “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman).

I wrote in my book “Junior to Senior”:

Widely known simply as “SICP” and praised by many developers, this is an introductory Computer Science course at MIT turned into a book. It uses a dialect of Lisp for instruction (remember how useful it is to learn a language different from what you know?) and moves assuredly and swiftly through some advanced concepts.

We’re not aiming to replicate a Computer Science degree, but to revisit or learn the fundamentals. Again, you don't need to read [it] or do the exercises, but [it is] fun and accessible if you're diligent, and you can learn a lot even if you're more experienced.

Never worked through the whole book myself (and I feel like my software construction skills are lacking), so I decided to take my own advice and do all 356 exercises. This is going to be fun (cue Dwarf Fortress fun meme).

The code is written in R5RS Scheme and you can run the files directly by downloading Racket and running DrRacket.

SICP Online

The book is available for free on the MIT Press website. This is the version I'm reading.

The July 1986 version of the MIT 6.001 course is also available for free on the MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube channel. There are twenty lectures, presented by the authors of the book themselves. The sound is not great, but you can turn on subtitles.

As an alternative, there are SICP video lectures for the Berkeley Computer Science 61A course (2011).

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