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On Chapter 6 - Accumulators
https://htdp.org/2020-5-6/Book/part_s...

Section 27.1 Fractals from Generative Recursion

Exercises are too bloated and repetitive.
Design recipe is very pedantic.
Project on XML could have been replaced with JSON.
Thankfully no more big-bang stuff in later chapters !

On Chapter 4 - Intertwined Data

On Intermezzo 3 - Ex 307

On Intermezzo 3

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On Section 16.7, Ex 272

On Section 16.2

On Chapter 3 - Abstraction
Excessive and useless exercises with the "big-bang" functions so far :/

On Section 12.6 of Chapter 2

On Section 12 of Chapter 2

On Section 10 of Chapter 2

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On Section 9.1 of Ch-2
Ex-138

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So far, the book seems to be very pedantic & bloated. A lot of the exercises were repetitive and unnecessary. Even as an introductory programming book, a lot of the material could have been easily trimmed.

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On Sec 5.6 in Ch 1

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Half of Intermezzo 1

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On Problem 1.32 of Ch-I Fixed Size Data

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On Section 2.3 Composing Functions in Ch 1

On Part I - Fixed Size Data
Section 2 - Functions & Programs

On Chapter 1 - Fixed Size Data

On Prologue : One More Defintion

"But, the single most important advantage of abstraction is that it creates a SINGLE POINTnOF CONTROL for the functionality in a program. In other words, it (as much as possible) puts in one place the definitions related to some specific task." Pag 264

Course began on page 77, basically. #Go back later and run the code in the previous sections.#

«if students truly absorb the design recipe, they enhance their articulation skills more than anything else»—lol you guys suck at articulation skills.

In Sec “This Book and Its Parts” they claims that symbolic view of computation generalizes school algebra. For BSL & ISL ∃ https://docs.racket-lang.org/stepper/....

«Learning to design programs also means acquiring two kinds of universally useful skills. Program design certainly teaches the same analytical skills as mathematics, especially (pre)algebra and geometry. But, unlike mathematics, working with programs is an active approach to learning. Creating software provides immediate feedback and thus leads to exploration, experimentation, and self-evaluation.»

They say that separation of data manip from IO leads to MVC; indeed Elm natch leads to MVC-like arch. Hence I disagree w/ both Moldbug & Stephen Bond: FP is natch, IMHO it's just bigger power leads to giddy runaway abstraction, hence crazy Haskell libs & category theory.