SICP

SICP Goodness - Fibonacci numbers

About fibonacci numbers and more

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!!! Every programmer at some point has studied fibonacci numbers, mostly likely as an interview question.

SICP Goodness - The Opening Music of SICP MIT Course

And the music in the beginning of the SICP online courses

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!!! The music in the beginning of each lecture is beautiful.

SICP Goodness - A deep dive into square root procedure

Put together the sqrt related stuff from SICP

7 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!!! There are several epic example problems in the book, the first one of them is of how to calculate the square root of a number.

SICP Goodness - A guess of why was the name 'let' chosen for block-scoped variable declarations in JavaScript

A guess about the origin of the new let keywork in javascript

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 post I give my guess of where the new let keyword in JavaScript comes from.

SICP Goodness - Why you don't need looping constructs

About different types of recursion

6 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 was quite shocked when I first read the following text from the book: