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by jordan0day 4904 days ago
> I couldn't care less about programming exercises, but I'd love to have some mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter so you can put in practice what you've just learn.

"mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter" sound like exercises to me?
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tsm 4904 days ago
Many SICP exercises would be similar to, "Ben Bitdiddle thinks he can define COND like this: [bunch of code]. Show why he's wrong." Which is not practical whatsoever--it's clearly a short problem for academic purposes.

In contrast, PCL would say, "Now we can write a media server, let's go!"

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djcb 4903 days ago
It's the difference between understanding and copy-pasting.
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