SICP, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, is widely considered to be a classic introductory book on programming.

I initially came across it on Gwern's website (http://www.gwern.net/sicp/Introduction), where he wrote :

'The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. What can be said about it that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? It is perhaps the single greatest computer science textbook, and surely one of the preeminent Lisp or functional programming textbooks. It is renowned for its imaginative exercises and mind-blowing techniques.'

Except I hadn't heard of it before. So I started googling around. Turns out. it has received a lot of praise from a lot of people (Paul Graham, Peter Norvig among many others).

My interested was piqued.

I first learned about it on 28/April/2018 and started actually doing it on 10/May/2018..

3 days, 52 pages and 15 problems (out of 28) later, I put it on hold for the near-future.

I did enjoy trying to work through it. It seemed to push the same buttons as physics prep did, ~5 years ago but the time wasn't quite right. I didn't seem to be getting as much out of it as I should have. Maybe I should've stuck with it for a little while longer.

I decided to stop and instead, focus on other things that appear to give more immediate benefit. I stopped at the start of Section 1.3.

Maybe I'll resume it if I find someone to do it with!