Re:Hard Books Are Overrated
by nextos on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @01:14PM
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I think his success spirals advice is great. You tend to build up skills iteratively and incrementally.
But comparing SICP to baby Rudin is extremely out of point. SICP is a conceptual book. Rudin is a super-synthetic Bourbaki-like text. A lot of intuition has been removed. In general this is bad unless you're going through the topic for the n-th time.
But comparing SICP to baby Rudin is extremely out of point. SICP is a conceptual book. Rudin is a super-synthetic Bourbaki-like text. A lot of intuition has been removed. In general this is bad unless you're going through the topic for the n-th time.