have you read this book /g/

nah, its full of old fogie ideas

>>55974834
nah it's about the fundamental concepts of computer science and is still applicable

also lisp dialects are good

>>55974811
no i am not good at math

>>55974811

I'm currently reading it..

It's pretty fun, I never thought I would like a Lisp langauge, but the way they introduce it it's just great to build everything up from the scratch.


SICP, K&R and "Clean Code" are the best computer books I've read so far..

>>55974811
I tried but the beginning chapters describe stuff I already knew so I dropped it out of boredom

I always considered this book a huge meme, augmented by that shitty gif of that Steve Balmer look-alike crossing out computer and science cuz CS is about neither, apparently

I'd love to see him program that lisp shit without a computer lmao

>>55975739
yea it's called lambda calculus, you don't need a computer

>>55975739
That's Harold Abelson you dimwit. Stupid newfaggot.

>>55975734
Tried reading clean code.
Felt.. Bloated?
It had the most annoying way to convey something - bitch, I got what you mean at start, no need to repeat it in 10 different ways.

Also buzzwords.

>>55975712
>algebra's hard

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>>55975906
calculus is hard as well

>>55976083
Maybe you should try Gender Studies

>>55974811
Yes, I've read that book. It explains a lot about many things computers work. Learns how to write "pretty" listings of programs and encourages to learn functional languages such as Lisp and its stripped-down, academic version -- Scheme.

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no

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not yet.

>>55976641
This is a comfy feeling that I haven't known for a long while

>>55976083
>calculus is hard
not in CS

>integral over a set of data
it's just sum() on the data multiplied by a constant

>derivative of a set of data
it's just the difference between a point and the next point, at every point, multiplied by a constant

Analytical solutions are for cucks.

>>55975739
I do like 80% of my lisping on paper, then punch it into a computer when I go home at night. His point is that calling the field "computer science" is like calling geometry "ruler science." The computer is just a tool, and it may not be what computer scientists actually use 1,000 years from now.

>>55974811
>2016
>reading books
w3schools has all the HTML/JS/CSS tutorials you need for the new age of programming

>>55976736
CS isn't just about using the computer though. At least not where I live.

Don't know how it goes in American schools, but I've had a lot of computer-centric subjects revolving around computer architecture, electronics etc., not just programming and maths, so to me, computer science is a very fitting name for the subject, honestly, and I found what Abelson did really dumb.

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>>55974811
no, Yui-senpai, I haven't read that book.

why do you ask?

>>55976900
in american schools computer science is kind of a branch term for programming, software design, and other related fields such as computability theory, cryptography, artificial intelligence, weird math fields like lambda calculus etc.

>>55974811
Scheme and lisp are literally Jewish languages

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>>55976083

>>55976900
He is making a deep theoretical point about what computer programming actually is on a fundamental level. It is a way of formalizing certain kinds of processes in order to produce certain kinds of results. Computers are used today, but algorithms don't need computers to exist, they describe a sort of formalized reasoning .

>>55974811
this book is like kryptonite for pajeet. just go read the amazon reviews to see what type of people don't like this book.

>>55975712
same t-b-h lad. i don't know if i should even try anymore

>>55974811
Yes, it was trash.

I'm partway through it, it's very enjoyable. I like Scheme.

>tfw too dumb for the exercises