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Framing SICP as a book is a little misleading. I mean, it is a book, but mostly it's a collection of ~350 programming exercises. Exercise solving time will dominate reading time like 10:1. It's worth it! But plan accordingly.

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I've spent much more time in sicp on text (and video lecture) than I did exercises. I also read it on my own time, not in class, and it took me many months to go through it.

I guess everyone has a different way of approaching this.

Did you do all the exercises? Some of them go by in a minute or two, others have taken me 6-8 hours with sessions over multiple days. That is probably my main gripe with what is otherwise excellent pedagogy, the unpredictability and variance makes it difficult to set progress goals or schedule.

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