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'''''Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs''''' ('''''SICP''''') is a textbook published in [[1985]] about general [[computer programming]] concepts from [[MIT press]] written by [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] professors ([[Harold Abelson]] and [[Gerald Jay Sussman]], with [[Julie Sussman]]. It has been used as the textbook for an introductory course in computer programming for students of [[computer science]] at MIT and other schools. Now in its second edition (ISBN 0-262-51087-1), it is widely considered a classic.

Using a dialect of the [[Lisp programming language]] known as [[Scheme programming language|Scheme]], the book explains core computer science topicsconcepts, including [[abstraction]], [[recursion]], [[compiler design]] and [[virtual machineinterpreter]]s. ItBy hasencouraging beenstudents usedto asregard thethemselves textbookas forlanguage andesigners introductoryinstead courseof inlanguage computerusers, programmingthe fortextbook studentsoffers ofa [[computerunique science]]perspective aton MIT andsolving othercomputational schoolsproblems.

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