Re:Hard Books Are Overrated
by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:06PM
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> I haven't read SICP (shame on me!), but I didn't think it had a reputation of a "hard book". Isn't it designed to be introductory textbook for freshmen students?
The two categories are not mutually exclusive; indeed, I'd expect the core textbook of any not-expressly-for-students-of-unrelated-majors introductory class in any field at a top-tier school for that field to be something of a hard book.
The two categories are not mutually exclusive; indeed, I'd expect the core textbook of any not-expressly-for-students-of-unrelated-majors introductory class in any field at a top-tier school for that field to be something of a hard book.