SICP

SICP Goodness - The Y Combinator

Understanding the Y combinator

Guowei Lv

4 minute read

Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps? Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work? Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long? Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science? If yes, read SICP!!! I rewatched the Lecture 7A again and found that I never really understand the second half.

SICP Goodness - Try-out the meta-circular evaluator from the lecture

Does the code from the lecture video work?

Guowei Lv

3 minute read

Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps? Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work? Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long? Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science? If yes, read SICP!!! In Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1, Mr Sussman said that he was going to fit the whole evaluator on the blackboard.

SICP Goodness - Metacircular Evaluator

a literate programming approach

Guowei Lv

2 minute read

Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps? Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work? Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long? Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science? If yes, read SICP!!! At the beginning of Chapter 4, we will implement an evaluator.

SICP Goodness - Metalinguistic Abstraction

Metalinguistic Abstraction

Guowei Lv

1 minute read

Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps? Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work? Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long? Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science? If yes, read SICP!!! Do you have the following questions?

SICP Goodness - Orgmode + Racket + SICP = 💕

How to setup orgmode to run racket code from SICP

Guowei Lv

1 minute read

Do you think Computer Science equals building websites and mobile apps? Are you feeling that you are doing repetitive and not so intelligent work? Are you feeling a bit sick about reading manuals and copy-pasting code and keep poking around until it works all day long? Do you want to understand the soul of Computer Science? If yes, read SICP!!! Recently, I started to write down study notes in one org file.