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by DennisP 3440 days ago
Reviewing with someone else can be a challenge for self-study; that's the step a test suite would replace.

Of course someone could use the test suite to just make changes semi-randomly until it works, but there's no reason it has to be used that way.

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Self-study students can find someone online to study together.

I like the amount of projects SICP inspires. That's one of the best things about it. I wouldn't want to discourage writing a test suite, but I wouldn't suggest studying it by using one.

SICP questions are designed to have elegant solutions, which may be missed, this is one reason why a study group is better than a test suite.