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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 c...

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