I absolutely did not appreciate much of what it was saying when I was a freshman. I’m not sure if that’s a failure on the book’s part.
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SICP was a weird book to me because I read through it and absorbed a bunch of conceptual stuff, but no code at all
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Like I learned no LISP from it. Maybe I benefited from reading it too early?
Also I think I stopped halfway through.
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That's okay: learning LISP is not the point. Benefiting conceptually from e.g. its homoiconicity is!
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I’ve just been introduced to it in the last year. I’m stunned by how good it is - book and videos.
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I think that's natural. You must learn Calculus before you can understand it, for example.
My attempt to channel Feynman :)
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to be fair, this is subtle stuff. how about maxwell's eqns? they are 150 years old and still a rite of passage. :)