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Teaching Myself Computer Science

I did not go to school for computer programming, everything I have learned has been either self-taught or through my work experience. While I learned a great deal from this, I felt there was something missing in my knowledge of this subject. I stumbled upon Teach Yourself Computer Science a while back and I felt this was a good source to kickstart my studies.

I recently purchased a copy of the classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and plan to begin my journey there. As I read through the book, I will create some blog posts on my learnings and maybe post some of my solutions to the exercises. I feel that writing down solutions for others to see will help me to fully understand what I am learning.

It feels great to have a place to reflect on my learnings and I am looking forward to starting SICP!

I leave you with a small code snippet of Scheme, the dialect of Lisp that the book uses!

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(define (square x) (* x x))
(square 21)

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