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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Hardcover)

by Harold Abelson (Author), Gerald Sussman (Author), Julie Sussman (Author)

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Hardcover: 657 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 2 edition (1 Feb 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0070004846
ISBN-13: 978-0070004849
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)

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With an analytical and rigorous approach to problem solving and programming techniques, this book is oriented toward engineering. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models. Its unique approach makes it appropriate for an introduction to computer science courses, as well as programming languages and program design.

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The book takes an analytical, rigorous approach to problem-solving and programming techniques and is oriented towards engineering. Used widely in leading departments of computer science and engineering for the first course for majors and for honors level introductory courses.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Books about Thinking about Programming, 4 Dec 2001

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This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition (Mit Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Series.) (Paperback)

This is a book that will change your perception of how to program, and what a program is really doing. It can't be read casually because it is important to think carefully about what the authors are saying.

The book illustrates how programming can be raised from writing a series of instructions minutely detailing how to do a task, to the higher level of simply specifying what should be done.

If you look at the other reviews, you will see that this book receives either 5 stars, or just 1. I would suggest that if you understand what this book is about, then you will also give it a 5 star rating.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good introduction to programming, 3 May 2000

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This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition (Mit Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Series.) (Paperback)

I am sure this book made excellent reading for any student taking Computer Science. But as I am studying on my own, I too find this book the best on the market. The exercises, the examples are all very rich and get to the point quickly. The book is very well supported by its website. The presentation is very fluent, clarity is its best feature. I feel I can finally learn the basics without being drown into lots of particularisations. This book feels more like the algebra of programming as opposed to many other programming books I've read which mainly give 'numerical examples', to keep the analogy. If basic maths (A level maths should be enough) is something you don't have much in common with than you may find this book hard to follow. Maybe a different approach may be of more use to you. But if like me you had a more consistent mathematical background, than this book is exactly what you need to get you into programming with no waste of time and effort.

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4.0 out of 5 stars SICP is rewarding despite dense and rigorous reading., 14 May 1997

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This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Second Edition) (Hardcover)

Being a Freshman at MIT and having to use SICP as the textbook for my Intro to Comp. Sci. class, I have a passing urge to really slander this book. It is certainly very rigorous reading, with concepts and examples presented in the manner of a a gushing fire hydrant. From the opening concepts of abstraction and compound procedures, SICP builds at a blazing pace, covering much more than just the basic material one would expect from a first-semester Comp. Sci. class, including topics which ought to be tucked away in later courses such as streams, register machine code, and compilation. However, the rewards of keeping up with the pace of SICP are tremendous, as the reader will undoubtedly have gotten quite a firm grasp of computer science and its challenges (Abelson and Sussman have included some of the on-going research topics of Comp. Sci. in SICP as exercises). SICP is a treausre of knowledge waiting to reward those willing to suffer in reaching it. I have personally both suffered and been rewarded. And if I ever get thirsty now, I have learned the art of drinking out of a spewing fire hydrant.

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