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by whatsup7123 1019 days ago
CS61A was great when they taught via LISP (Scheme). Have they switched to Python? Probably still good but would be nice to have LISP.
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You probably know this already, but if anyone wants to learn “old-school” SICP with Scheme via video lectures, I recommend MIT 6.001 (taught by Abelson and Sussman themselves): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...

The book is amazing, but it is also very extensive/overwhelming and I found that the lectures provide a better guiding structure for myself and the lecturers are also quite entertaining at times. The website also provides additional material related to the course such as exams, projects and lecture notes.

It now starts in Python and ends with Scheme (building a Scheme interpreter in Python).

Source: I lectured 61A in 2021