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by bigdict 1629 days ago
How did you like the book?
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I like it, but I have only worked about 1/3 of the way through it.
What would someone who has worked through SICP learn from it (based on the first third that you've read)?
I've also gotten through about the first 1/3. Based on this, and the table of contents, it goes into much more depth (both in terms of implementation and non-trivial illustrative examples) into a number of topics that are either only touched upon in SICP, or not discussed at all. These include combinators, generic functions, pattern matching, etc. There's a chapter on propagators, which didn't even exist when the last edition of SICP was written, though I think SICP does discuss related (but simpler) ideas on constraint propagation.
Thank you.