Re: [MLUG] SICP

["Raymond Myers" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I recently watched those, and found them to be fantastic. We need more
programming courses that introduce higher-order functions and
pattern-matching before they get around to the assignment statement.
How may Lisp programmers are there in MLUG, anyway?

Down here at UMR (soon to become Missouri S&T), we have those lectures
on our official mirror (in DiVX format I think):

http://mirror.umr.edu/pub/courses/abelson-sussman-lectures/

Those of you who are on campus at Mizzou could probably pull it down
really fast from there. If downloading big files isn't your thing,
almost all of them are on Google Video.

http://video.google.com/

1a "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
1b "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
2a "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
2b "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
...... and so on

Those search terms will find the individual lectures, except for
{9a,9b,10a}, which appear to be missing.

-- Ray Myers

On 4/10/07, Ryan Thornton <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> The large files are a bit much to download but I am grabbing the divx
> versions.   Quality is barely there, but readable.
>
> -- Ryan
>
> On 4/10/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > I remember hearing about SICP from Jon King a couple of years ago.  I just
> > received the message below on the local Ruby users group.  It mentions
> > that there are video lectures available.  I went to the web page...
> >
> > http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
> >
> > ...and it looks like they are about 23 MB per minute (averaging about 1.5
> > GB for about 1 hour), so the video quality is probably very high.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > >From local ruby list....
> >
> > 1. Are there any functional language user groups in town?
> >
> > 2. If so, or if not, is anyone interested in working through SICP [1], and
> > watching the video lectures [2]?
> >
> > The word is that SICP will teach you functional programming, improve your
> > code in any language, provide true CS enlightenment, make you rich,
> > improve your looks, keep your children healthy, etc. et al. See [1] for
> > recommendations. I've worked through the first few sections and found it
> > great so far.
> >
> > I think it would be fun to watch one lecture a week, discuss, and work
> > through the relevant sections of the book (online and unreadable for free
> > [3], or overpriced on paper [4]).
> >
> > Anyone interested?
> >
> > [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms
> > [2] http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
> > [3] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/book.html
> > [4] http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/dp/0262011530
> >
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