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A comment on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topi... by zelphirkalt on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:54AM (#33594814)
Recursion: SICP and later The Little Schemer. Abstraction barriers: SICP Continuations: The Little Schemer Decision Trees: Uni. of. Washington MOOC about classification and retrieval and later implementing them myself in Racket and later GNU Guile.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topi... by ceedon on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:01PM (#33598145)
Can't agree more. The Little Schemer took me from "getting it" at a conceptual level to really knowing how to use recursion to get stuff done. Super important for grokking data structures imo.
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