As you can see, my interest arose more from an interest in Lisp rather than a particular interest in studying computer programming, which is the real subject of SICP. I’ll leave it until my next update to report more fully on how I’m finding Lisp: so far, I have been enjoying the language, but the development environments seem primitive—and I haven’t begun to investigate library support.
The book itself is written with intelligence and wit. I read quite a few computing books but don’t often have the time or motivation to work through the exercises. The ACCU project helps with the motivation, and my efforts are being repaid in full.
The ACCU website is at: http://www.accu.org
The primary project resource is the email list itself: http://www.accu.org/mailman/listinfo/accu-mentored-sicp
The book, “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”, by Abelson and Sussman, is published by MIT Press. The full text is available online at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Videos of the accompanying lectures can be downloaded from: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
Schemers.org, an improper list of Scheme resources is at: http://www.schemers.org
Finally, more information on this mentored developer project can be found on the project Wiki: http://wiki.wordaligned.org/sicp
“From Mechanism to Method: A Fair Share, Part 1”, Kevlin Henney, http://www.ddj.com/dept/cpp/184403842
“Hackers & Painters”, Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html
“How To Become A Hacker”, Eric Steven Raymond, http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Especial thanks to Mike Small for running this project, and for providing some of the raw material which went into this report. Thanks also to the other members of the mailing list.