This article reports on progress made by the “Structure and Interpretation or Computer Programs” mentored developer project. To date, half-a-dozen students, give-or-take, have been working steadily through the exercises in Abelson and Sussman’s book “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (SICP).
You may not be aware of the mentored developer projects, or, if you are, you may be interested to learn a little more about how they operate. You may be curious to find out why anyone interested in studying computer programming would want to use Scheme, a dialect of Lisp—an old and notoriously uncompromising programming language. This article cannot provide definitive answers to these questions: for answers, you’ll have to visit websites, digest emails, watch lectures, work through exercises, even. Instead, it offers pointers to more information and an invitation: It’s still not too late to join in.
Let me also mention at the outset that Mike Small leads this project. I’m just a student who has volunteered to write a report.