is this guy degrading computer programming with his SICP book?
I checked out the exercises and it's like a bunch of pointless exercises that are designed to exhaust your brain, and don't do much in terms of education or utility
thoughts?
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Anonymous2017-01-10 6:55
>>1 All computer science is like that. Mostly useless, mind-sapping bullshit that has zero application in the real world. Its like taking advanced calculus course in university and later a job in accounting.
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Anonymous2017-01-10 7:37
Daily reminder that computer science is not a degree in computer programming. Computer programming is not the purpose or nature of computer science.
>>2 Computer science wasn't always like that. Read some papers from the 40s through 70s. But you have to watch out for some 70s stuff because of the FP scam, but it was only a small vocal minority, not the majority like it is today.
If you limit yourself to the 60s and earlier, only Jews and gays wrote about lambda calculus and little endian didn't exist. CS was a better place.
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Anonymous2017-01-10 17:30
SICP is functional programming (FP) turdware.
>>2 Computer science wasn't always like that. Read some papers from the 40s through 70s. You have to watch out for some 70s stuff because of the FP scam, but it was only a small vocal minority, not the majority like it is today.
If you limit yourself to the 60s and earlier, only Jews and gays wrote about lambda calculus and little endian didn't exist. CS was a better place.
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Anonymous2017-01-10 18:48
SICP is the building blocks to all computing. Do you think Linux would exist without SICP? Do you think the internet would exist without SICP? Do you think Babbage could have designed the Difference Engine without SICP? Do you think Turing could've done what he did without SICP? No No No NO
You're right, it's all a scam. You'd be better off with Sam's Learning VB.net in 21 days.
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Anonymous2017-01-10 22:25
i started with the easy sicp (how to wrote computer programs or some shit) then sicp and now 2 years latter i have a 6figure job doing basic C# drone shit and i hate it
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Anonymous2017-01-11 5:20
monkey hat wants a nice glue for his objects
he dubbed it cons
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Anonymous2017-01-11 5:23
well shitty mcshitty, 168 pages in and we've finally gotten to lists.
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Anonymous2017-01-11 5:31
are you just cdring down sicp, or are you consing up a plan while doing so? that's the question
>>4 the only decent challenge so far ahs been the 8 queens problem, the rest's just "here do this shitty laborious work -- draw tree diagrams, re-create the wave painter, figure out the growth rate of this process, draw the call chain of this one -- while I do some decent programming"
this is the nature of sussman
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Anonymous2017-01-14 22:23
he's a math boy like LAC was saying. he goes on about vectors early on in the book, being these cute little points on a 2D plane, then 600 pages later he's a deer in headlights with soiled panties because vector's now an array and we're talking vector-set! and vector-ref
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Anonymous2017-01-30 6:23
>>4 Was making a terrible Banepost part of your plan?
Yes. Forget SICP. CLRS is the new standard introductory text for aspiring programmers. No hippy-dippy, functional paradigm or "list processing" to be found there. No, sir, only loops with mutable counters operating on wholesome, God-fearing arrays. Granted, they're one-based and not zero-based arrays, but that's academics for ya.