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by Alan J. Perlis (Foreword), Harold Abelson (Author), Gerald Jay Sussman (Author), Julie Sussman (Collaborator)

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Hardcover: 657 pages
Publisher: MIT Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (6 Aug 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0262011530
ISBN-13: 978-0262011532
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.8 x 3.7 cm

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There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in this revised book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the computer science course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many exercises. In addition, all the programmes have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.

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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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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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