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I tried to go through SICP and stopped short at Chapter 2. This time around, I used Brian Harvey's CS61A lectures and I'm almost done. He does a good job teaching you the book as well as the content in the book if that makes sense. It's worth a watch if you feel stuck in SICP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leZ1Ca4f0g&list=PLhMnuBfGeC...

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SICP is my quarantine project, going through the whole thing taking my own notes in org-mode, doing the exercises, and checking with https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile as I go along. It's been fun!

I'm on chapter 2 now; if you want to form a study group, HMU at <username> at gmail!

Thank you. Having mentioned this, I wonder if there are similar-in-spirit lectures for Common Lisp? PG has written two books on CL, and I've heard of some Industrial Strength apps written in CL. So, if starting today, it seems like maybe CL is the Right Choice?

I'm not sure about CL lectures in general.

In regards to applying CL to SICP, I would argue that the course is more about the underlying concepts than the language itself. You could probably read a CL reference and write your exercise code in CL instead of Scheme, or just learn CL after the course and it wouldn't be a big leap.

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