Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Notes

This repo contains my personal self study notes from reading the book by edition.

~~Currently stuck on chapter 2, skipped my last exercise. Will now focus on learning computer systems and algorithms.~

~I am back from suffering in Algorithms land. By that I mean that I was procrastinating and doing other unrelated things. I was reading Art of Computer Programming and I got even more depressed because I could get fast enough to my true goal of writing my own Minecraft clone.

Crafting Interpreters can be read before or after this book.

I am back once again. I have resolved to reread this book(or my notes) and finish this book once and for all. I have finished Crafting Interpreters. I hated it but I did learn some cool stuff.

Now that I have checked once again the table of contents of SICP, I actually recognize some of the stuff that is in it.

I was planning on reading some source code BUT, I now realized I really want to finish this book. I will be throwing/gifting the other books that I have finished but now I realize that this book, SICP is a true godsend.

I will be on and off reading source code, reading relevant papers, learning the zk command line utility, finishing the book. Lots of fun stuff. Since I now longer have college, I can think about. The only thing keeping me going with college was my pride. But due to personal reasons, the is no longer the case.

Goals

• reorganize the pandoc setup so as to have a proper PDF output
• finish book
• Learn a LISP language
• learn to code, hard way
• create strategy for organizing exercises
• configure Neovim for note-taking. Since I am back this is hard, I have configured Neovim to be a good TEXT editor, less focus on code editing
• write compiler in GNU Guile
• get rid of makefile
• add support for EPUB
• chapters 1 and 2

A lot of TODOs failed bacause I suck, as such they were deleted.

I have decided at this point that the lectures are a waste of time. The lecturer seems to really like spending his time writing stuff on the chalkboard. Something which bores me to no end.

Example of Scheme Code

(define (square x) (* x x))
(define relu (lambda (x) (if (< x 0) 0 x)))

(square 3) ;; => 9
(relu 7) ;; => 7
(display "Hello World!\n") ;; Writes to standard out.
(relu -2) ;; => 0