Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP

Reading this brings back fond memories of taking CS61a with prof Brian Harvey at UC Berkeley some 25 years ago. Same book, same level of mind=blown, and very similar instruction style. we spent a semester instead of a week and if memory serves tuition was about the same, but they threw in some English and history courses as well :-)

Same. For me it was 15 years ago, but was with Prof. Brian Harvey in Pimentel hall with the rotating stage.

Nice memories.

I fell in love with scheme eventually as it was such a simple syntax. Getting used to parentheses did take some time though.

Same memories, and even the same timeline :) I still recall being blown away by the concept of "code is data", the magic of which I haven't encountered in professional development, alas.

OP here. Thank you for the kind words! For those who enjoyed this, I would also point out Eli Bendersky's excellent SICP series https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/sicp