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by computerdork 537 days ago
Don't think I have ever heard of the SICP book as my school split all these different subjects it covers into different courses. But looked it up and wow, it goes into a lot of advanced subjects! (recursion, trees, Big O and computational complexity, Data abstractions, Objects, and ends with compilers). That is some survey and it's amazing you were able to work through this in middle school - I was just learning Algebra and the history of the early Americans back then - Incredible

This now makes sense you were able to work on Rosetta 2 mainly on your own!
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markus_zhang 536 days ago
Can relate this too. Tried to read SCIP but dropped after a couple of chapters because I couldn't wrap my head around some of the exercises and the ' symbol.

Eventually figured out I'm more into comp arch, assembly language and such instead of the more Math part of CS.

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computerdork 536 days ago
Yeah, higher-level math is got to be one of the hardest subjects a person can study. I find it quite a challenging too:)
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