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Re:Why Fennel? by OhMeadhbh on Monday April 14, 2025 @12:55PM (#43683335)
Also... HtDP (How to Design Programs) is a good follow-on to SICP.

Oh... and I think we can't mention SICP without referencing this (relatively recent) video about why MIT moved from Scheme to Python for intro classes: https://youtu.be/OgRFOjVzvm0

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Re:Why Fennel? by jamesliudotcc on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:24PM (#43685925)
HtDP was written to address difficulties with learning from SICP https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-...

I have gotten much farther (and accordingly learned more from HtDP). It is accurate to think of it as an on ramp for SICP.

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