Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:00PM (#428488)

Freenode channel ##hn-sicp has been setup for weekly meetups and/or ongoing discussion.

I also set up http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp for arranging discussion times and any other miscellaneous things if needed.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:08PM (#429292)

The Freenode channel has been changed to ##SICP

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by tptacek on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:37PM (#428374)

Isn't there some Web 2.0 app that organizes book clubs like this?

I have a couple books (signal processing, compilers, programmable logic) that I'd really like to work through with a couple people; what I really want to do is get together every other week or so over beers in Chicago, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by idiopathic on Sunday January 11, 2009 @10:52AM (#429222)

http://www.booksprouts.com/

Designed for exactly this kind of scenario, and recently launched.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by nonrecursive on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:32PM (#428531)

I actually had the idea to make a site like this last night. bookbuddies.com or something like that. You could start an online book group with a few people and have your own forum, but also see the forums of other people who are reading the same book.

I'm pretty sure http://www.librarything.com fulfills this need though.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by Anon84 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:31PM (#428455)

The closest site I know that does something similar is http://www.MeetUp.com

You can probably create a "Chicago Hacker Meetup" and start scheduling meetings.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by nazgulnarsil on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:31PM (#428361)

weekly IM chats about material? If we can get at least 5 people I'm in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:55PM (#428399)

That's a great idea. We could also set up a google group(or something similar) if people were interested.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by brl on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:06PM (#428422)

How about an IRC channel on freenode too.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:22PM (#428443)

how does ##hn-sicp sound?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by rantfoil on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:20PM (#428440)

use chatterous.com -- it's great for small group chat.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by bprater on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:31PM (#428456)

Getting folks on an email list to announce the bat-time and bat-channel might be the way to go.

Otherwise, everyone will completely forget.

Anyone have a quick service that allows folks to create a very simple and small email list of folks?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by arasakik on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:50PM (#428473)

If you use chatterous.com you'll get your own room that you can hook Email or IM into. You'll also get a one-click url that will bring you to web chat.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by jimb on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:24PM (#428447)

Yeah, this book has been at the top of my wish list for a while. I think it would be great to get 5 or so like minded people all starting near the beginning of the book. Simple irc room, and weekly chats about material would be great.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by mk on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:03PM (#428417)

Yeah I would be interested. I've already started going through the lectures and some of the exercises, but it would be cool to work on them in groups.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by silentbicycle on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:12PM (#428428)

I'm interested, too. I'm up to chapter two in the exercises, FWIW.

vokes dot s at gmail dot com

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by notaddicted on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:10PM (#428504)

I'm in as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by Anon84 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:29PM (#428452)

I'm in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by johngunderman on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:16PM (#428623)

count me in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by alnayyir on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:34PM (#428458)

I'm in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by steveeq1 on Sunday January 11, 2009 @02:59PM (#429456)

Might I make a recommendation? Start with "The Little Schemer" and then graduate to "The Seasoned Schemer". Here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...

It takes you more step-by-step than SICP and once you get more practice with those books, SICP will be much more paletable.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by KirinDave on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:01PM (#428666)

Since many HN readers are in the CA Bay Area, would it make sense to add a bi-weekly or monthly physical meeting to this as well?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by thehickmans on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:25PM (#428448)

This sounds like a good way to keep motivated, having tried and failed to get through SICP on my own. Count me in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by daniel-cussen on Monday January 12, 2009 @02:29AM (#430255)

I got through it in a sense. I attempted every problem of the first of the five sections, and solved most of them. Then I worked with a tutor who looked through the rest of it and decided to work on something closer to the state of the art. I wouldn't say what I learned was better than SICP, but it was interesting.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by truebosko on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:45PM (#428383)

I've been going through SICP, albeit slower then I would hope so. I'm only into the initial sections and I would definitely be up for something like weekly IM chats at a scheduled time to discuss the book and help each other understand.

That would be great, so count me in if it happens.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by moiz on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:23PM (#428519)

I want to be in... but I've 5 other courses to deal with...

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by cnu on Saturday January 10, 2009 @10:59PM (#428768)

I too want to be in. Have been hanging around in chapter 2 for a very long time. But don't want to start on a new thing now. Have been working on many things lately and want to finish it off.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:05PM (#428421)

It looks like there is at least a few people interested. Should we all leave a comment with contact info (if it's not in your profile)?

My email is chris.m.conley at the goog.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by chrisconley on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:18PM (#428436)

Forget the email thing; we'll set up an irc channel :)

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by hydo on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:13AM (#428985)

Count me in as well. I bought the book as a package deal from amzn with "The little Schemer" and haven't read much of it.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by redline6561 on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:34AM (#428838)

I'm certainly interested. I got bogged down in Chapter 2 last year. Time to go again, I suppose.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by judofyr on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:36PM (#428371)

I'm also in! My copy is being shipped at the moment, though. Should arrive around 3th Februar :/

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by sharkbrainguy on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:12PM (#428427)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html should work fine until then

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by silentbicycle on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:14PM (#428430)

The texinfo SICP (http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/) is good too, if you're working in Emacs.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by sharkbrainguy on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:04PM (#428496)

I am, thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by dlimeb on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:35PM (#428460)

I'm in as well, and my copy is being shipped too :) Ordered it a few days ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by r11t on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:32PM (#428695)

Excellent. I just started with SICP. So doing it together with HN folks sounds nice!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by tomkarlo on Sunday January 11, 2009 @09:51AM (#429175)

I'd like to be added to the mailing list ... tom /at/ karlo /dot/ org

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by yan on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:59PM (#428661)

I just finished chapter 1, but would love to join you guys.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by staticshock on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:20PM (#428678)

I got SICP as a christmas present, I'm in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by LogicHoleFlaw on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:52AM (#429004)

Same here :) Book club is a go!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by noblethrasher on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:53PM (#428656)

I'm in. rod at ennobleit dot com

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by metaguri on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:10PM (#428425)

i'm in. i'm on chapter 2 right now. i think irc meetings are a good way to go.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by brl on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:04PM (#428420)

Sure, count me in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by zain on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:12PM (#428429)

+1 me too

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by sgaur on Monday January 12, 2009 @05:09AM (#430349)

Please add me too

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by kirubakaran on Saturday January 10, 2009 @10:34PM (#428740)

Cool! I am in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by nx on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:01PM (#428557)

I'm SO in :D:D

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by KunQian on Monday February 09, 2009 @04:42AM (#473218)

add me please kunqian at live dot ca

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by curiousandy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:56AM (#428869)

Count me in

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by vlad on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:53PM (#429335)

I'm in!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by jlujan on Saturday January 10, 2009 @11:49PM (#428796)

In

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by wfarr on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:13PM (#428617)

I'm in!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by carbon8 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @07:25PM (#428577)

In

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by siong1987 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:23PM (#428518)

I am in.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by macmac on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:56PM (#428484)

I am in!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by rbanffy on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:00PM (#428412)

I'm in too

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? by arjungmenon on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:31PM (#428530)

I'm in.

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