sicp-exercises

Solutions to exercises from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

What is SICP?

• It is a textbook written by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, for MIT's Intro to CompSci course.
• It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation.
• More about it can be read here
• The textbook is freely available, can be found here

Why am I reading and solving it?

• It teaches a way of reasoning about programs, from what I have read and solved so far, it has provided me a profound insight into ways that computer programs can be formed.
• Don't believe me? Read Peter Norvig's review aboout the book: https://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8
• It also teaches different paradigms of programming, and provides the foundation for them.
• So I'm reading it as an eventual build up to Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages.