SICP has been taught here for a long time, in Scheme. Unfortunately, the professor--Dr. Brian Harvey, who apparently contributed significantly to the second edition of the book and has taught this course for decades--has decided to retire. Now that he is gone, I guess the people running the course have decided to move away from Scheme to Python, for some odd and unknown reason, but still use the book (at least for now).
The reason they moved is because no one else wants to teach it in scheme. When I took the class in 2007 he mentioned then that after he retired the class would switch to python because he was the only one who thought SICP was worth the headache of dealing with scheme.
However, they still use SICP behind the scenes because they have a bunch of lecture notes for it, and because it really is a great book.
btw, i don't think harvey actually retires until 2013 or 14. i think he's just doing behind the scenes stuff now.
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SICP has been taught here for a long time, in Scheme. Unfortunately, the professor--Dr. Brian Harvey, who apparently contributed significantly to the second edition of the book and has taught this course for decades--has decided to retire. Now that he is gone, I guess the people running the course have decided to move away from Scheme to Python, for some odd and unknown reason, but still use the book (at least for now).
The reason they moved is because no one else wants to teach it in scheme. When I took the class in 2007 he mentioned then that after he retired the class would switch to python because he was the only one who thought SICP was worth the headache of dealing with scheme.
However, they still use SICP behind the scenes because they have a bunch of lecture notes for it, and because it really is a great book.
btw, i don't think harvey actually retires until 2013 or 14. i think he's just doing behind the scenes stuff now.