I started reading SICP for the first time over the weekend. I've been developing software for the last 5 years or so with a lot of ad hoc knowledge (Im self taught and mostly do PHP or Ruby based web projects), but I feel like lisp is interesting.
The concepts are familiar, but it feels more abstract in a nice and useful way.
I started with the videos, but they were wayyyyy too slow. Then I was reading the html version of the text. But this version is quite good. I am not yet sure what the differences between common lisp, closure, and scheme look like, (I'm still early in the book) but I think that this distilled version is marginally easier to follow.
The concepts are familiar, but it feels more abstract in a nice and useful way.
I started with the videos, but they were wayyyyy too slow. Then I was reading the html version of the text. But this version is quite good. I am not yet sure what the differences between common lisp, closure, and scheme look like, (I'm still early in the book) but I think that this distilled version is marginally easier to follow.