Summer's here and I'd like to brush up my programming skills before going to college. I'm inclined to start reading SICP. It has great reputation, I've read some reviews, but I'd like to know what the real (1) /g/entoomen who've read it think about it.
(1) - Screw the shitposters.
>>55226247
>implying anybody on /g/ has read/has the ability to read a 600 page book
>>55226247
It's a good book. This book, and I guess Scheme/functional programming in general is great for learning about functions as first class objects, and about doing things recursively.
I'd recommend using the DrRacket IDE, but with R5RS (or similar) as the language instead of Racket.
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Programming_resources
Didn't read any of those books though.
>>55226947
Why would you do that if there's already an officially supported sicp language including the picture language from chapter 2.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
>>55227624
Didn't actually know about that. I guess just use that then.
>>55226247
If they make you take Java at college or something like that, don't do it. Doing OOP after groking FP will depress you.
>>55228202
not really. I took OOD after doing 2 semesters in racket and it is just a different way of solving problems, some of which require mutation and wouldn't be as clean in a functional language (such as where you'd want dynamic dispatch)
