Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters
Brian HarveyUniversity of California, Berkeley
In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe
made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me
to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them:
SICP was revolutionary in many different ways. Most importantly, it
dramatically raised the bar for the intellectual content of introductory
computer science. Before SICP, the first CS course was almost always
entirely filled with learning...
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