SICP Goodness - Mutable Data (II)

Modeling with mutable data

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!!! Representing Tables We can build a table data structure by just using pairs.

SICP Goodness - Mutable Data (I)

Modeling with mutable data

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!!! Mutable List Structure We introduce 2 operations to change a list: set-car!

SICP Goodness - The Environment Model

The environment model of evaluation

5 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!!! Before introducing assignment operation set!, we can use the substitution model of evaluation.

SICP Goodness - Message Passing

One useful programming idea

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 this article, we will see how to construct an object that has internal states by using message passing.

SICP Goodness - Why Assignment Is Still Useful in Functional Programming

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 FP world people bash assignment. They say it is the root of all evils.