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Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by spatulon on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:41AM (#18111709)
I just finished re-reading SICP. If you're going to read it on a screen, I recommend this version: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

I'm 1/3 of the way through The Little Schemer. So far, it's not taught me anything I didn't already grok from SICP. I hope it picks up!

Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by rbonvall on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:45AM (#18113731)
I cruised through most of it. But the last three chapters really twisted my brain (continuations, the Y combinator, and the metacircular interpreter). I was familiar with the concepts, but figuring out the programs by myself was a tough exercise (I haven't read SICP though).
Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by btschaegg on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:48PM (#18114402)
> If you're going to read it on a screen, I recommend this version: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

Thank you very much for the link! :)

Opening it on my phone, this paragraph on the available ebook formats very much made my day:

> A 386 can, in theory, run Linux, Emacs, and a Scheme interpreter simultaneously, but most 386s probably can’t also run both Netscape and the necessary X Window System without prematurely introducing budding young underfunded hackers to the concept of thrashing.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by senderista on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:23PM (#18150461)
Trust me, it will :) The last few chapters on CPS and the Y combinator are roughly a vertical segment on an otherwise nearly horizontal learning curve.