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Divver | 8 years ago
After that they apparently switched the class to python.
My professor was Brian Harvey whose doctoral advisor at MIT was one of the authors of the SICP book we used for the class.
It was a good book. One of the few CS textbooks I actually read. Many CS books are pretty badly written imo.
But there are a few that I consider very well written. This book was one of them.
Divver|8 years ago
Scheme and parenthesis hell when writing code on the midterms....
Also car caar cdr cddr etc etc (you can theoretically nest as deeply as needed)
hahaha that class...
krylon|8 years ago
Writing code on paper sucks in many (all?) languages. At least the ones I have tried. Python might actually have an advantage on that front, Haskell, too.