High schooler looking for used copies of SICP

Posted by chocolatepi on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:25PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm a 10th grader (aged 13) interested in computer science. I got into it using [Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/), a programming website for kids. There I met Brian Harvey, the brilliant (former) CS lecturer at UC Berkeley.

I asked on the thread where all the CS geeks (and Brian) hang out if there was any way to get my hands on a copy of SICP cheaply, since naturally my parents refuse to get me one because they think that CS == IT. They (the Scratch people) suggested I ask on Hacker News if anyone's got an old copy they're willing to part with. So that's what I'm doing!

So if you've got an old copy of SICP around your house collecting dust, I'd be very grateful if you could email me at [email protected] and we could talk!

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Re:High schooler looking for used copies of SICP by towerofnix on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:13PM (#11333684)

Sounds like ChocolatePi is looking for a physical book: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/1847563/

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Re:High schooler looking for used copies of SICP by chocolatepi on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @09:58AM (#11344461)

Fancy seeing you here! Nah, I'm thinking I'm just going to get one off eBay.

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Re:High schooler looking for used copies of SICP by rafa2000 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:32PM (#11301811)

Here you go: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf

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Re:High schooler looking for used copies of SICP by nostrademons on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:10PM (#11301952)

There's an online HTML version as well:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

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