• Description
• Lessons
  1. Getting Started
  2. Procedures and Abstraction
  3. Higher Order Procedures
  4. Data Abstraction
  5. Hierarchical Data and the Closure Property
  6. Symbolic Data
  7. Abstract Data
  8. Systems with Generic Operations
  9. Assignment and Local State
  10. The Environment Model of Evaluation
  11. Modeling with Mutable Data
  12. Concurrency: Time Is of the Essence
  13. Streams
• Members
• Forum

Description

This class covers the first three chapters of the classic computer science book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Chapters 4 and 5 are outside the scope of this class. The first three chapters are quite a bit to digest and are worth a class of their own. If you're interested in delving into the last two chapters, feel free to create a new class to cover just those two.

Prerequisites and Difficulty

Some programming knowledge is helpful.

Materials and Technical Requirements

All course materials are freely available online:

Book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Supporting information: MIT's OCW website.

Video lectures: lectures on Google Video that follow the book.

Any content on this site derived from the MIT OCW content is licensed under their same Creative Commons License.

How Curious Reef Works

The purpose of the class is to learn collaboratively with others.
The course creator has organized the course information for everyone.

• Complete one lesson and its assignments per week
• Submit and self-grade your own work
• Help each other in the class forum

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