SICP

Pocket version of SICP

sarabander — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:27:22 +0000

For reading on e-book readers and small tablets, a pocket version of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is now completed: sicp-pocket.pdf, or an alternative with tiny margins: sicp-marginless.pdf. It has 1133 pages, 93 diagrams, 356 exercises, and 29192 parentheses! Source repository: sicp-pocket.

And there’s more — an update to the non-pocket version: sicp.pdf, with better pagination and total page count reduced from 795 to 762. (Source repo: sicp-pdf.)

Fixes and improvements to the PDF

sarabander — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:59:26 +0000

This is an update to fix a few typos found in the first three chapters. Other than that, there are cosmetic changes to the diagrams and page layout. Text leading has been reduced and page margins adjusted. Denser flow of text has brought the page count down from 939 to 795. Have fun reading, watching the videos, and playing with the REPL!

Here is the updated PDF. (Previous version still available.)

EDIT 2012/11/25: newer version of the PDF.

New electronic version of SICP released

sarabander — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:37:34 +0000

The PDF version of the classic MIT 6.001 computer science textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), 2^nd ed. by Abelson, Sussman & Sussman just got better.

The typography has been modernized for better on-screen legibility and comfort. All the mathematics is set in proper TEX, and figures redrawn in vector graphics.

It is an improvement of the Unofficial Texinfo Format (UTF) which was converted from the original MIT Press full text release by Lytha Ayth and maintained by Neil Van Dyke.

You can learn more about the new ebook, use the source, or read the PDF.