Seems indicative of shifting expectations/demands that SICP used to be freshman course book; now it's considered "super advanced reading" :/
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Its both... Advanced reading for a freshman, and there are better ways to learn those concepts.
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Very interested in this! What do you like better for learning about data/procedure duality, metacircularity, etc?
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I self taught, largely because my CS classes were so simplistic. For me, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy helped.
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy help you understand data/procedure duality? Whoa!!
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I interned at a research organization that had seriously good people to help me. One of my CS instructors was down the hall
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My mentor in CS was ~10 years older than me, spent 3 years under a mentor of his own in Japan, and is ridiculously talented
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I went on to become an engineer/scientist studying inverse problems (CS is not my specialty)