SICP Challenge

The SICP study group met today. We agreed to do the following:

• read a section of the book.
• solve the exercises in the section.
• see the videos.
• come with doubts/insights etc for the next meetup.

We agreed to meetup once in 2 weeks.

So, here I am, (re)starting the SICP from today. Hopefully this time I will complete the book. I am very tempted to do the exercises in clojure, so that I won’t copy the code as it is from the text. I am not sure whether future chapters can become difficult for me  because of this, but I think I will give it a try with clojure. Also I believe I will need only a subset of clojure so that use only the fundamentals and no advanced facilities.

Here are some of the available resources that I plan to use:

• The book itself, which is available online and the exercises.
• The OCW lecture notes.
• The Berkeley CS61A videos (see the panel on the right for the following lectures, 44 of them).
• The Problem sets (or projects).
• The video lectures given by the authors at HP (based on first edition).
• Clojure/Emacs/Slime/Paredit.

My solutions will be available in this github repository.

Of course, I/we are not the first to do this. Here are some of the other people who have attempted this and have documented it (much better than I could ever do) on the web.

• Eli Bendersky's SICP discussions.
• Drew Hess's SICP wiki.
• Ken Dyck's SICP solutions.
• Bill the lizard's solutions.
• Weiqun Zhang's solutions.
• ... and many more.

For those who are using Scheme, this page will be of great help.

Syndicated 2010-03-14 08:00:00 from Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan