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Seems indicative of shifting expectations/demands that SICP used to be freshman course book; now it's considered "super advanced reading" :/

the preface does say not to think that way, though =)

I am simply raising the possibility though. I don't remember how hard it was, and I was one of those hobbyists

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This is fair. I don't think it expected any kind of programming hobbyism *but* it leveraged expected *math* hobbyism.