is this a meme? should I do the exercises?
Is this a meme? should I do the exercises?
Wyatt Parker
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Jonathan Torres
I was looking at this website OP.
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Ethan Myers
no
yes
Joseph Adams
Big meme.
Oliver Roberts
good book. watch the course, its pretty entertaining.
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Brody Allen
maybe
Bentley Robinson
the language feels like an impediment to doing the exercises
i'm using common lisp instead of scheme but I figured they're close enough. it seems like there aren't any basic functions like max in cl.
Oliver Parker
no
yes
Luke Harris
Xavier Watson
It's great, do it.
I find Scheme to be the much saner option compared to CL. I'd use Clojure before even considering CL. Ended up settling on Racket for the exercises (had to use mcons instead of cons in some places. Still close enough).
Asher Smith
When I took intro CS we used it and it made me decide I hated programming for decades. Finally I grew up, discovered K&R and realized that I could just program embedded systems and use whatever worked.
Seriously, SCIP is a good book, as long as you understand that it's a kind of weird applied mathematics, and not some sort of gospel. Do the exercises to improve your understanding of programming abstractions and CS theory.
If what you are interested in is *programming* then you should definitely work through K&R's *C Programming Language* first.
Owen King
Can I do this book in Haskell instead?
Asher Lee
this
just know the audience. the book was written for MIT students competent in another area of undergrad math or science. if you don't know what an integral or differential equation is, you are going to have a bad time.
James Clark
use chicken scheme or racket
Ryder Martin
what kind of retard doesn't know multivariable calculus?
John Brown
Install mit-scheme and do the exercises. Reading the book without doing the exercises is a waste of time.
Samuel Cox
Not really.
Noah Gomez
Lips annoys me because I have trouble counting the number of repeated characters. nested parentheses and number literals with many repeating zeros are my bane.
Brody Sanders
If you use an editor from the 21st century, it will have parenthesis highlighting. If you use an editor that is good for lisp, it will handle the parenthesis for you.
Nicholas Collins
no
yes
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Just use a real editor with parenthesis matching highlighting and parenthesis colors (Emacs with rainbow-delimiters for example).
Oliver Hughes
You should be looking at the indentation level rather than the parens most of the time.
Brandon Carter
I know a lot of people use Emacs for lisp, and if you do the same, I recommend `rainbow-delimiters-mode' to highlight the parentheses.
On a similar subject, I also recommend `paredit-mode' to nagivate through the parentheses.
Tyler James
this actually looks amazing? Can I use lisp well in vim? Do I have to go full autism and use Emacs? Anyone ITT know if VS Code has good Lisp support?