Does SICP cover the same ground as FoCS?

7 points by kathe 4y ago ↗ HN

Does the material in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start) cover the same ground as "Foundations of Computer Science" (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html)?

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blip54321 4y ago ↗

No.

jacques_chester 4y ago ↗

FoCS is more focused on discrete mathematics. SICP focuses mostly on, well, programming language interpreters. SICP is also chattier, in my view.

rrrodia 4y ago ↗

Does anyone know of a current MOOC that uses SICP (or FocCS for that matter)? It seems courses like these were available (untill two years ago?), but slowly universities have withdrawn them from EDX / Coursera for the public.. leaving only the very superficial 'intro to' type of thing.