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This section provides the assigned readings for the course. All readings are from the course textbook:

Amazon logo Abelson, Harold, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780262011532.

The book is available online through the MIT Press Web site, and is also available in downloadable form.

MIT Press: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) main site

Full text of SICP

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LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
L1Introduction to Computation
L2Scheme BasicsSection 1.1
L3Procedures, Processes, and RecursionSection 1.2
L4Orders of Growth and Kinds of ProceduresSection 1.2
L5Data AbstractionSection 2.1
L6Higher Order ProceduresSection 1.3
L7Good Programming Practices
L8Using Higher Order ProceduresSection 1.3, Section 2.2.4
L9Symbols and QuotationSection 2.3
L10Tagged DataSection 2.4
L11Advanced Data Types
L12Data MutationSection 3.3.1-3.3.3
L13Trees, Graphs and Search
L14Graphs and Search
L15Environment ModelSection 3.1, Section 3.2
L16Object Oriented Programming I
L17Object Oriented Programming II
L18Object Oriented Programming III
L19Interpretation
L20The Meta-circular EvaluatorSection 4.1
L21Lazy EvaluationSection 4.2, Section 3.5
L22Asynchronous ComputingSection 3.4
L23Universal Machines
L24Geometric Folding Algorithms: Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra
L25Peer-To-Peer Computing Research: A Fad?
L26Computability

 








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