Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend the SICP lectures as a deeper, livelier route into the book and a formative course even for seasoned programmers.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

MIT OpenCourseWare

Topic

programming fundamentals with Lisp

Format

lecture

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• Learn LISP/Scheme and lots of fundamental concepts you probably have a feel for, but in a far more profound way: 1. First watch the SICP series ( [VIDEO] ) 2. Then work through the book ( [LINK] ) If you really do the exercises (an …

• The real beauty is in how few operators you need to achieve maximal expressiveness in a programming language. It makes other programming languages seem extra. Highly recommend the SICP lectures [VIDEO]

• The class mentioned in the article was actually made available under Creative Commons by the MIT OpenCourseWare[1], you can see the entirely of the course in Youtube. I watched and cannot recommend it enough, even for seasoned programmers [1]: [VIDEO]