So I just finished the functional programming course at my uni

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2016-06-06 22:18:12 Post No. 54948278
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:18:12 Post No. 54948278 [Report]

So I just finished the functional programming course at my uni where this book was required reading. My God this book is an overrated pile of garbage.

Where do I start my critique? The unnecessary verbosity? The shitty environment model in chapter three? The total lack of useful algorithms? How about no indication of how to apply any of the shit this book teaches you?

Most modern CS books teach several programming paradigms, introduce algorithms and data structures, and also something to show or tell how these techniques can be useful in the real world. There is non of that in this shitty, outdated, overly verbose pile of crap.

The only think I gained by reading this shit is learning about tail recursion and getting better at recursive techniques in general. That's about it.

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:19:09 Post No.54948292
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:19:09 Post No.54948292 [Report]

>>54948278
here's a (you)

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:19:58 Post No.54948303
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:19:58 Post No.54948303 [Report]

How can I tell that you're going to end up as a web developer?

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:21:36 Post No.54948322
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 22:21:36 Post No.54948322 [Report]

>>54948303
Yes. Because there is no chance I can work as a low level developer if I don't like this pile of crap. I mean C and ASM is sooo fucking similar to functional programming

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:06:12 Post No.54949046
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:06:12 Post No.54949046 [Report]

>>54948278
my school taught our intro class using htdp which is an updated version meant for beginners. I agree that sicp is overrated and shouldn't be a beginner book now though, but if the only thing you gained from it was recursion then you definitely did not really put enough effort into your class

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:07:40 Post No.54949070
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:07:40 Post No.54949070 [Report]

>>54948303
Don't be so sure. He might go into enterprise Java development.

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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:16:56 Post No.54949211
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Anonymous 2016-06-06 23:16:56 Post No.54949211 [Report]

>>54949046
This was not a beginner's course in my class though. Prior to this course I'd had three semesters of object oriented programming in Java, I had also assembly programming and low level programming using C. So it didn't really add much to what I already knew.