On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:31:25AM -0800, Mark Schoonover wrote: > I'm finding Lisp to be more challenging than SICP itself. The concepts so > far I understand, but there have been times doing the exercises, Lisp has > been more of the challenge.
Well start posting your questions to this list. I for one would be happy to help. It will not only help you but also help us to learn Scheme. > I've read the thread about "You don't really > understand something until you program it", but I don't think this means I > don't understand the concepts simply because Lisp is proving to be a hurdle. > What if I did the exercises in Perl instead? Would that mean I understand > the concepts? Well yes and no. Depends on what concepts you were trying to understand. Certainly if your goal was to learn Lisp then programming it in Perl wouldn't help. :) > Someone on the list is starting to write a Lisp processor in Python. Does > that mean he only understands the implementation of Lisp, but won't > understand the concepts behind SICP? That was me. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
