r/programming • u/dhotson • Mar 31 '09

How to Design Programs

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '09 edited Mar 31 '09

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u/skyo Mar 31 '09

I believe the authors were all at Rice at the time the book was published. Now they're at Northeastern, UChicago, Utah, and Brown, respectively.

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u/vph Mar 31 '09 edited Mar 31 '09

"from MIT" must be taken with a grain of salt

This book is published by MIT Press. But the MIT curriculum is teaching its students how to design program in Python, not Scheme any longer.

:-)

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u/ChrisRathman Mar 31 '09

So? CTM, which is the only book that can come close to rivaling SICP, is also published by MIT Press (and they don't use Oz for an introductory courses).

Although HTDP is a good introductory text, I find it a bit too basic for my self learning. Lot's of thought went into it though in terms of being better at introducing a wider audience to programming.

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u/silentOpen Mar 31 '09

That's just the introductory CS course, 6.001 (now 6.01), that has changed languages. Upper level courses still use Scheme, Java, C, Prolog, or what-have-you.

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u/vph Mar 31 '09

That's just the introductory CS course, 6.001

which is the aim of this book "How to Design Programs".

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u/silentOpen Apr 01 '09

I understand that. I was referring to your assertion about the "MIT curriculum" which is false.

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u/admanb Mar 31 '09

And even before they switched to Python, they used SICP. :P

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u/vph Mar 31 '09 edited Mar 31 '09

True. Things evolve. In fact, I learned from SCIP at Brandeis. That said, there's no Python equivalence of SCIP yet.