• Another repo for SICP
• Using Brian Harvey's CS61A from spring 2011: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a-pages/

Since the course uses a custom scheme library, I've decided to do a dual setup.

• For the book, the idea was to have something bare bone, as close to MIT scheme as possible, but with better editor support / REPL, etc..
• Eventually, I came across Guile and stucked to it
• Minor difference I've noticed so far is in terms of guile not providing a nil object
  • instead just use '() as recommended by the book later on

• The course requires the berkeley library
• They do provide an old code to the library in the archive above, but loading that straight away fails in every scheme implementation I've tried
• Eventually, I found this repo with really awesome instructions
• Basically, they have adapted the code in a racket library
• Install racket, then:

raco pkg install --auto berkeley
raco pkg install --auto planet-dyoo-simply-scheme1

• then you can use whatever editor and using berkeley's scheme library is as easy as:

(require berkeley)

• If you'd like to do the full immersion and start on emacs as well, I can recommend spacemacs
• It's a bit bloated but eases up the transitioning (especially if you're used to vim as I am)
• The configuration with evil-mode works quite well out of the box, and setting up racket and guile is as easy as enabling the respective layers:
  • https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/scheme/README.html
  • https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/racket/README.html
• Since racket uses .rkt extension (instead of the standard .scm), emacs will switch the major mode between them seamlessly

• CS61A skips some exercises and also switches the orders from the first chapter
• Because of that I've split the course and book materials
• all exercises from the book (asked or not in CS61A), are inside book
• exercises from the course (homeworks / projects / midterms) are in CS61A