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SICP Brunch Club

What's this about?

Let's study Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) together over a brunch at Bill's. Bring your copy, your laptop, and let's run through the exercise together.

No prior experience required. Newcomers welcome.

The book itself is available online. And has even been converted to a nice HTML/EPUB format

Original lectures by Abelson and Sussman are available online too and well worth a look.

Recommended Software

The book uses Scheme for all examples and exercises. You can download Racket Scheme online to go through the exercises yourself. You could also try all the exercises in another Lisp dialect, such as Clojure.

Preparation required

None! - All the resources are available for free and the point of the meetup is to go through the exercises

Experience required

None required. We'd recommend some basic familiarity with programming, but the book assumes no prior knowledge. We've had beginners write their first piece of code while going through chapter 1, and SICP is possibly one of the best introduction to programming available anywhere.

In addition, we often work together to go through the exercises, so if you have no experience with Scheme or functional programming, someone in the group can fill in the gaps in your knowledge.

Communal Repository

Please add your code for the exercises to the communal repository on github after each session. All pull requests are accepted and welcomed :)

https://www.meetup.com/Sheffield-Programmers-Study-Group/events/fnqjzmywmbdb/

https://www.meetup.com/Sheffield-Programmers-Study-Group/events/fnqjzmywmbdb/

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 10:00am (Europe/London)

Sat 2nd Sep 2017 1:00pm (Europe/London)

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