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A comment on SICP taught by Abelson and Sussman [video].

Re:SICP taught by Abelson and Sussman [video] by exDM69 on Thursday April 10, 2014 @03:26AM (#7564651)
What is notable about this video series that these lectures were given to an audience of professional programmers (staff of Hewlett-Packard), not first year students taking their first baby steps in programming.

It's nice that the video moves at a comfortable pace and doesn't get stuck explaining some details which most of the audience finds dead obvious.

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Re:SICP taught by Abelson and Sussman [video] by jacobolus on Thursday April 10, 2014 @05:45AM (#7565019)
My understanding is that their lectures to MIT freshmen were substantially similar in pace and content, but just spaced out over a longer period of time.

Schools like MIT tend to assume that students are sufficiently mathematically sophisticated and technically competent, and willing to work hard to keep up.

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