Let me recommend, however, that you skip exercises that involve draw.ss. If you can, make up alternatives using image.ss or universe.ss (see teachpack docs). — Matthias (via PLT)
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HtDP Makes SICP Easier
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Recommendation: do the math-y sections in HTDP. This will give you a flavor of the kind of mathematics you get in SICP, even though there are non-overlapping examples in each. I would especially focus on the examples from calculus (numeric differentiation, integration, taylor series etc) but the graph traversal (network flow) things are good for [...]
HtDP Teaches More Than Programming
Saturday, February 21, 2009
…you won’t believe it but by reaching part VI, you have mastered a significant chunk of mathematics that you would have never considered within reach had I told you at the outset of your studies that you’d understand rudimentary concepts from “higher” algebra (advanced college material). — Matthias Felleisen (via PLT)
A peasant revolt against DrScheme!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Here is an interesting thread in the PLT discussion archive discussing the want of beginning programmers only to learn things that are clearly useful! (surely via the PLT Discussion list, but I can’t recall or find it…)
HtDP Languages and Math
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A comment by Matthais on the nature of the first three HtDP languages: HtDP’s first three teaching languages are basically mathematics, ignoring the parentheses. We use — arithmetic, for many different forms of data — algebra, for (potentially conditional) function definitions — pre-calculus, for induction and recursion (these things converge, like series)
The First Year
Sunday, August 10, 2008
The First Year? It’s not Scheme. Matthias Felleisen talks here about his teams approach to first-year courses on programming and computing. Here is a presentation on the approach. Be sure to read it as there are a lot of interesting bits in there. (via PLT)