Interesting commentary on Berkeley’s battle around retiring SICP for its intro CS course: cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a.html
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Agreed. Too many people look at the surface level syntax and miss the theory behind the languages.
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Well, maybe he's not doing a good job of teaching it then.
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I went through 61A with SICP. A few years later I read it again and was amazed at its scope. I missed so much the 1st time!
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I didn’t know enough yet to fully appreciate SICP the first time.
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I remember that on my university there was some courses that focused to much on language itself that in the general topics
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the best course was the one that we mainly used pseudocode. is when I learnt how to think, not what to write in the computer
