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Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...

especially the section on streams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB...)

It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.

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Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

> Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

And what if the OP knew nothing of maths before the course? A mistake it was, but I think you’re overindexing on (potentially) a brain fart.

Yeah but pi degrees of my outlook into the universe gets to be very very large over large distances...

Yeah this one is so much fun. I feel like I really grew as a programmer from this course. Scheme is the perfect teaching language because each concept being taught can be demonstrated in its pure form so you really “get it”. I had been a professional developer for 10 years or so when I went through this course, and it profoundly changed how I thought about code.

“It’s not a science and it has nothing to do with computers.” Talk about starting CS101 with a bang!

That's like a more fun-sounding version of Dijkstra's "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Surely you mean pi radians and not pi degrees.

in my opinion as far as learning programming is involved Brian Harvey's SICP lectures are superior

Awesome, thanks for sharing

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