you've got me nostalgic for my college days, just alex.
i remember this CS course was insane and my introduction to how hard college was going to be.
any CS nerds here that studied it in the 90s should know this textbook, the fantastic "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming" by Abelman and Sussman
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a textbook aiming to teach the principles of computer programming, such as abstraction in programming, metalinguistic abstraction, recursion, interpreters, and modular programming.
It is widely considered a classic text in computer science, and is colloquially known as the wizard book, due to the wizard on the jacket.
It was first published in 1985 by MIT Press and written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman. It was formerly used as the textbook of MIT introductory programming class and at other schools.
Before SICP, the introductory courses were almost always filled with learning the details of some programming language, while SICP focuses on finding general patterns from specific problems and building software tools that embody each pattern.
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i was fortunate enough to be enrolled in this year long course when Julie Sussman, one of the authors was a visiting professor and taught it! nice right?
oh, and they taught it in 1 semester at MIT though, not 2 like at CAL!! but those guys well, MIT guys, you know.