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!

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.

A Plea for Lean Software

Wisdom from professor Niklaus Wirth

Guowei

3 minute read

I recently watched the talk A Guide for the Perplexed given by Joe Armstrong. He recommended two papers. One is A Plea for Lean Software by Niklaus Wirth, who is the creator of the Pascal language. After I read the paper I found that the this man is brilliant! He had found some of the deep problems in the industry and offered solutions decades ago. Unfortunately no one listened to him.

SICP Goodness - The Essence of Computer Science

What SICP authors think about computer science

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!!! The following text is from the preface to the first edition of SICP.