/lit/ - Literature

>>14675648
No he's talking about the '70s horror novels with names like "K9 Bloodbath" that were written to cash in on the success of Stephen King.

>>14677899
The flaw in his reasoning is that not everyone is gonna turn into Oscar Wilde if he's on welfare. And Oscar would have found a way to write even if he needed a job.

Ironically, Stephen King discusses this exact point in "On Writing" were he talks about writing on a diaper changing table in his laundry room for an hour every day.

>starting on the work
Then if you've already started, you have something to share with us, right?

>>13867115
>How long would it take to read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

If you really go through and do the exercises, it takes about a semester like the guy above said. Less if you aren't taking other classes at the same time

>how useful is it
It's worth a read if you plan to do a lot of programming. It gives you a lot of "tricks" that you can pull out later to solve tough problems.
Scheme/Lisp is a really different language that will break you out of your preconceptions about what's possible in a program.

Abelson and Sussman have a very idealistic approach that shows they have clearly not written that much "production" code. Even Kernighan and Ritchie are a bit like this IMHO. In real life you will more frequently use the "in the trenches" approach of old O'Reilly books and Microsoft employees. But you should at least know about the idealistic approach, because there's always that one case where a smarty-pants solution is the best.