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== Coursework ==

The book was used as the textbook of MIT's old introductory programming class, 6.001.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/ | work = OpenCourseWare | title = Electrical Engineering and Computer Science &#124; 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs |date=Spring 2005 | publisher = MIT | accessdate =2011-06-28}}</ref> This class has been replaced by 6.0001,<ref>{{Citation|title=Catalog|url=http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=6.0001|contribution=6.0001|publisher=MIT}}.</ref> which uses [[Python (programming language)|Python]].<ref>{{Citation | first = Donald | last = Guy | quote = I talked to Professor Sussman on the phone... He said that he'd actually been trying to have 6.001 replaced for the last ten years (and I read somewhere that Professor Abelson was behind the move too). Understanding the principles is not essential for an introduction to the subject matter anymore. He sees 6.001 as obsolete | url = http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/coursework/the_end_of_an_era_1.shtml | title = MIT Admissions | type = blog comment | contribution = The End of an Era | accessdate = 2008-08-05}}.</ref> Other schools also made use of the book as a course textbook.<ref>{{cite web| first = Edward C | last = Martin | url= http://www.schemers.com/schools.html | title= Schools |publisher= Schemers |date = 2009-07-20 |accessdate= 2011-06-28}}</ref> The second edition ({{ISBN |0-262-51087-1}}) appeared in 1996.

More recently it is used as the textbook of MIT's Large Scale Symbolic Systems class, 6.945.<ref>http://eduapps.mit.edu/textbook/books.html?Term=2016SP&Subject=6.945</ref>