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Official SICP/Scheme Study Group Registration (up. 1/26)

okonomiyaki · 2007-04-10T21:18:21

After discussing it for a little while, we will really be starting soon. This thread is to let people know this and to get a general feeling of who will be involved. We will be studying the online book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), which uses a dialect of Lisp called Scheme. If you are interested please reply with your information below. Update: see this post for up-to-date info about the group. We are still alive! Please feel free to join. To current members, lets keep it up! Here are some links for SICP: SICP (book) Lectures Lecture Notes (thanks Reindeer Effect) (Following is old) The general format will be this (and this may change over the course of the study, this is to just get things started): - Every week there will be a thread that outlines the current week's lesson and what to do. Students/mentors will reply to this thread with answers and questions. - We will have an IRC channel where informal meetings can take place but in general be a place where hopefully a couple people will constantly be. Still kind of fleshing out how this will work. Edit: if any mod is reading this, I'd like to have an OK that we'll have an offical thread every week? Is it possible to make the thread for the current week a sticky? (end old stuff) We will start next week with Chapter 1, "Building Abstractions with Procedures". We'll probably then take Thanksgiving week off and then continue after that. Please reply with the following: Name: I am interested in joining the group as a: Student | Mentor | Somewhat both My experience with Scheme is: My experience with general programming is: Timezone: I will be updating this list as people reply. This from the thread before this. This list is just for our own sake, to make sure we got enough people to make this work. People are free to still join once the group has started. Me: Name: Okonomiyaki I am interested in joining the group as a: Student My experience with Scheme is: Little, writing square root solver My experience with general programming is: Experienced, long time working with C++ with some Perl, Python, and other scripting Timezone: US Eastern (GMT -5) -- Study group members: Rebooted (possible mentor/leader) thebolt00 (possible mentor/leader) Roboguy (possible mentor/leader) chollida1 (possible mentor/leader) some Anonymous Poster (possible mentor/leader) SamLowry (possible mentor/leader) Muhammad Haggag (possible mentor/leader) The Reindeer Effect mentor Alpha_ProgDes GPX DeadXorAlive Ezbez Tynnhammar Okonomiyaki joanusdmentia XXX_Andrew_XXX Telastyn visage Xloner12 CTar samv David Tynnhammar Ceoddyn DaBookshah programwizard Daerax @root lXciD Diodor codingdaemon kevtimc EmrldDrgn GameDev Doctor aceofspaceman [Edited by - okonomiyaki on January 26, 2007 4:50:14 PM]

SICP Workshop Workshops

Started by okonomiyaki November 08, 2006 10:11 AM

65 comments, last by kSquared 17 years, 5 months ago

Ceoddyn

192

November 13, 2006 10:31 PM

I'm in as a student and feeling extra rebellious, so I refute your dictatorial forms. Avast!

Muhammad Haggag

1,358

November 14, 2006 03:04 PM

The SICP Workshop forum has been created.

Name: Muhammad Haggag
I am interested in joining the group as a: Student | Moderator
My experience with Scheme is: Mediocre (Read through parts of SICP before, but didn't finish)
My experience with general programming is: Experienced (mostly C++)
Timezone: GMT+2

The Reindeer Effect

211

November 14, 2006 11:24 PM

Ok, I'll bite.

I am interested in joining the group as a: mentor
My experience with Scheme is: mature
My experience with general programming is: immature ;)
Timezone: cst

DaBookshah

175

November 17, 2006 05:50 AM

I am interested as joining as a student.

No scheme experience. My previous experience with functional programming is minimal. I did a uni course on haskell, but that was WORSE than expected. Not possible, I hear you saying, but it was.

My general programming experience is pretty good.

Timezone is GMT+8

This workshop is an awsome idea, we need more of them.

Gary the Llama

134

November 23, 2006 02:52 PM

I'd really like to take part in this study group but I'm curious about the math requirements. My math skills are really weak - am I going to be follow along or be lost in the first chapter? What should I study up on? At this point, I can barely do basic algebra. :(

Does anyone have any good links that could help me get up to snuff without spending a ton of money?

SamLowry

1,865

November 23, 2006 03:06 PM

Quote: Original post by Gary the Llama
I'd really like to take part in this study group but I'm curious about the math requirements. My math skills are really weak - am I going to be follow along or be lost in the first chapter? What should I study up on? At this point, I can barely do basic algebra. :(

Does anyone have any good links that could help me get up to snuff without spending a ton of money?

The book we use is available for free online, and interpreters/compilers for most popular platforms can also be found. See this thread. Hence, no cost to you whatsoever.

Math skills are not really required for Scheme (not more than for any other language), but the book likes to use math in its examples (mostly in the first chapter since data structures haven't been discussed yet, and also the derivatives-example comes to mind). Feel free to ask for help and we'll do our best to either explain or provide you with equivalent math-free examples.

Gary the Llama

134

November 23, 2006 03:11 PM

Quote: Original post by SamLowry
The book we use is available for free online, and interpreters/compilers for most popular platforms can also be found. See this thread.

Oh yeah, I found those. I was referring to math books or online sites to start working on my math skills. :)

programwizard

100

November 24, 2006 07:22 AM

I just found this, but I'm interested in joining.

Name: programwizard
I am interested in joining the group as a: Student
My experience with Scheme is: A little bit, I've written the famous factorial function, I know the basics like cons lists and lambda expressions, and I've done a bit of GUI work in DrScheme.
My experience with general programming is: I've been programming for about a year and a half now. I've got the most experience with C, C++, and Java, but I've also worked with C# and Python, and right now I'm learning OCaml.
Timezone: U.S. eastern.

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okonomiyaki

Author

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November 25, 2006 12:25 PM

Hey guys, thanks for your interest! I'll update the list soon. I also really need to update my post about the study group because it's changed a lot since I wrote it.

Daerax

1,207

December 02, 2006 01:35 PM

Nice. Is it too late too join? Im interested in joining as a student.

Can we have a Haskell workshop too? ;) These two strike me as being well suited to learn together.

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