Interactive SICP

Re:Interactive SICP by pmoriarty on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:29PM (#19051581)

Is there a version of SICP where the math-heavy exercises have been substituted with less math-heavy ones?

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Re:Interactive SICP by merlincorey on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:52AM (#19052405)

Not precisely, but, HTDP (How To Design Programs) is a gentler intro to computer science in scheme tome: https://www.htdp.org/

Both SICP and HTDP are from MIT.

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Re:Interactive SICP by DonaldPShimoda on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:32AM (#19055541)

> Both SICP and HTDP are from MIT.

HtDP is published by the MIT Press, but I'm not sure that's the same as saying it's "from MIT". None of the authors of HtDP are at MIT. One is at Northeastern, one at Northwestern, one at Utah, and one at Brown. Lots of CS books are published by MIT Press regardless of whether MIT actually makes use of the material.

Also, HtDP uses PLAI, a language implemented in Racket, which is not pure Scheme, but that's a pretty minor nitpick that doesn't really detract from your point. HtDP is a pretty good textbook, in my (admittedly limited) experience with it.

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Re:Interactive SICP by HiroshiSan on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:45PM (#19056385)

One of the authors of HTDP also won a teaching award and it seems they really put a lot of thought into the pedagogy of programming.

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Re:Interactive SICP by jonjacky on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:50PM (#19056449)

Simply Scheme by Brian Harvey is sometimes called a prelude to SICP. Many of its early exercises use text instead of numbers.

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