▲Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures(github.com)
117 points by felipap 3 days ago | 9 comments
▲725686 9 hours ago
If you are into SICP, you would probably like a nicely formatted html version of the book:

https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml#SEC_Conte...

And also this:

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp

▲lioeters 3 hours ago
The nicely formatted SICP is also available in downloadable formats.

EPUB - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/blob/master/sicp.epu...

PDF - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/raw/master/sicp.pdf

▲aesbetic 11 hours ago
In the first lecture, Abelson says Computer Science is neither a science nor is it really about computers. Considering the current ML paradigm, maybe CS has finally earned its name as a science.
▲bmitc 7 hours ago
What about the current ML paradigm makes it a science?
▲computerfriend 4 hours ago
Observing and testing phenomena we don't understand.
▲mcmoor 3 hours ago
I guess it's been progressing from being math, to natural science, to social science
▲gjvc 10 hours ago
quite the opposite
▲tmtvl 10 hours ago
The SICP video lectures with Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson got me into Scheme and from there on Lisp. Although now I'm wondering if this would be better as a 'Show HN' submission.
▲matheusmoreira 3 hours ago
There's also this interesting study about the difficulty and time requirement of SICP's exercises:

https://lockywolf.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/solving-sicp/

The math stuff is brutal.

▲vismit2000 5 hours ago
Most of the code from the book is also available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465
▲hnarayanan 12 hours ago
This is such a fun class!
▲xdavidliu 10 hours ago
i watched the lecture series during the pandemic and commented on many of the youtube videos. in at least one instance, a library function is used on the board that is not compatible with the current function signature in mit scheme.
▲ted_dunning 4 hours ago
Oh no.

I suppose it is something to do with the fact that it has been, what, almost 40 years since the lectures?

The fact that most of the code would still work is a miracle. That wouldn't work for, say, Java (which didn't exist in 1986). Nor C++. Nor Javascript (also not there back then). Fortran and C might be able to pull it off (but barely).

Remember, we didn't have computers worth the name back then. Shoot, we didn't even have dirt yet, just rocks.

▲carverauto 6 hours ago
would be better if you could just use AI to re-do those particular scenes in the video series..
▲so-cal-schemer 6 minutes ago
I'd been hoping to do just this, but don't quite have the resources.
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▲lgas 25 minutes ago
why can't you?
▲retr0rocket 11 hours ago
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