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		bigasscoffee on June 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teach Yourself Computer Science SICP sounds like a big waste of time when you can follow another guide in a language like Python and make applications along the way.

stormdennis on June 21, 2020 [–]

Yeah! Yeah! I'd say your onto something here buddy!

bigasscoffee on June 22, 2020 | [–]

Agree/disagree, but after doing SICP myself, following other methods and making projects at the same time (or working on things I was interested in) forced me to learn a lot more than just doing some assignments in a language I would never use again.

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