Sign-Up

Anyone can follow a study group on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.

Standard Set

This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Answers

• 
  codeadept   April 17, 2012, 4:57 p.m.

  Bio:

  Jeremy Anderson is a software craftsman, agile coach, mentor, adjunct professor, freelance writer, husband, father, and Kung Fu practitioner, though not necessarily in that order. He has spent the past several years perfecting his craft, developing web based solutions and integrations using Java, Flex, Groovy on Grails, Ruby on Rails and .NET, and mobile solutions for the iOS platform.

  Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA

  Standard Set Answer:

   

  What made you interested in this topic?

  I was introduced to this text a few years back by Corey Haines during the very first Code Retreat in Ann Arbor, MI. I purchased the book shortly afterward and haven't opened it up to read until now.

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  I am hoping to learn as much as I can from the text and improve my craft as a software developer.

  Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  I may be able to help out there a bit.

• 
  Ravi   Jan. 30, 2012, 6:53 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: India

  Standard Set Answer:

  * Wanted to know how Lisp differs from other programming languages and how my way of thinking changes after reading SICP

  * Able to apply the concepts which I learn at my work or future programming

  * Yes

• 
  Anonym   Jan. 21, 2012, 1:59 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Texas

  Standard Set Answer:

  The article "Beating the Averages" by Paul Graham. A better understanding of language design, and to continue developing an intuition for problem solving. Not for the time being, the semester just started.
• 
  Surfer Dude   Nov. 2, 2011, 10:28 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Sofia

  Standard Set Answer:

  To refresh my knowledge of Lisp

• 
  Jure   Oct. 15, 2011, 10:29 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Slovenia

  Standard Set Answer:

  I wanna learn Clojure an I believe this book is the best resource to learn Lisp from. I hope I will meet some people from my country (Slovenia) who are also learning the same stuff since here this is almost non-existen subject

• 
  Fabian   Oct. 9, 2011, 10:02 p.m.

  Bio:

  Looking to make a career change. 

  Location: Austin TX

  Standard Set Answer:

  The web is my passion. I would love to start a career in the Technology field. Being an educator, I would love to help the study group as much as possible. 

• 
  andrej   Sept. 16, 2011, 8:50 p.m.

  Bio:

  Overall Geek. Cognitive psychologist with prgramming background.

  Location: Los Angeles, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  I had a look at SICP as an undergrad and started learning lisp to implement prolog at some point but abandonned it pretty quickly. I want to learn more about scheme and lisp. and according to people who know about it: SICP is the way to go!

   

  I am interested in helping in anyway I can as time permits.

• 
  Amalia   Sept. 16, 2011, 9:58 a.m.

  Bio:

  Seeker, persistent people, love create things

  Location: Valladolid

  Standard Set Answer:

  I think this is one of the main book that every developer must read

• 
  Ahmad Al-ajmi   Sept. 15, 2011, 5:11 a.m.

  Bio:

   

  Interested in Programming 

  Location: Egypt

  Standard Set Answer:

  I just getting started in computer science and  started with the SICP course at MIT and it would be great if i joined a real comminity.

  Learn computer sience and to think like a programmer

  Yes

• 
  LongHua Huang   Aug. 15, 2011, 5:03 a.m.

  Bio:

  A Java programmer

  Location: NanJing, China

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic?

  First of all, I want to extend my experience in programming. For example, what're good data abstractions and how to write beautiful code.

  Secondly, I want to learn a functional programming language, especially a List dialect. And how to think in functional style.

  At last, I heared many guys said that SICP is a good book to improve your programming skill.

   

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  1, discuss with others about the same topic. Learn from others.

  2, motivate myself to keep up with the schedule.

   

  Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  I will be very happy if I could help anybody.

• 
  j.jerrod.taylor   July 28, 2011, 8:28 p.m.

  Bio:

  I want to make software.

  Location: Tampa

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic?

  "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."

  I want to know what everyone is talking about.

   

  What do you hope to achieve by participating? 

  Learn scheme.

   

  Are you interested in helping with the study group organization? What needs to be done?

• 
  sayem   July 25, 2011, 11:24 a.m.

  Bio:

  http://github.com/sayem

  Location: new york

  Standard Set Answer:

  I've been working on SICP on my own for a bit and would love to join others doing the same. I'm definitely interested in helping however way I can too, this seems like a great way to stay focused and disciplined.

• 
  germ13   June 22, 2011, 4:16 a.m.

  Bio:
  

  Location: East Los Angeles

  Standard Set Answer:

  1. Took a class in college on scheme, would like to revisit the topics discussed there.

  2. Want to learn to use emacs more.

  3. No, not at the moment.

• 
  Katastrof   June 21, 2011, 9:32 a.m.

  Bio:

  Information Systems major

  Location: Kansas

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am studying computer sciences and hope to further my knowledge and understanding in them.

• 
  Ernestas   June 19, 2011, 2:09 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Ireland

  Standard Set Answer:

  Want to improve understanding of programming.

• 
  Phillip Smith   June 15, 2011, 9:57 a.m.

  Bio:

  By day I'm a digital publishing consultant. By night I'm a secret agent for the open Web.

  Location: Toronto, Canada

  Standard Set Answer:

  Joining at the suggestion of P2PU staff so I can check out some of P2PU's new features. Just an interloper / eavesdropper. 

• 
  sarabander   June 14, 2011, 8:08 a.m.

  Bio:

  I'm looking into functional programming, concurrency, mathematical modelling. Also interested in typography, TeX, LaTeX, e-books with mathematical content.

  Location: Estonia (GMT +3)

  Standard Set Answer:

  The unconventional approach of the  SICP 6.001 course at MIT OpenCourseWare made me very curious. Being an electrical engineering graduate I felt the computer science part of my education wasn't very satisfying.

  I started watching SICP lecture videos and reading the online book. I wanted to make my reading experience more pleasant, so I improved the available Texinfo version and created this: sicpebook.wordpress.com.

  I believe by collaborating we can bring in more insights and interesting ideas, and grow our minds faster.

  I'm willing to help if I can.

• 
  Ben   June 13, 2011, 6:02 p.m.

  Bio:

  I'm a computer science and philosophy student at Virginia Tech, but I'm also trying to learn as much as possible about as much as possible.

  Location: Blacksburg, VA, USA

  Standard Set Answer:

  I was planning on working through the SICP exercises on my own, but today I stumbled on this group via Hacker News. I was really excited that you guys were going to have your first session tomorrow. I've already done most of the first chapter (but in the first edition of the book, which I borrowed from a friend who took the course at MIT). My solutions, most of which are probably badly done, are on my Github page.

  I hope to learn about functional programming, general software design principles, and how to better solve problems using computers.

• 
  Trent Hauck   June 13, 2011, 2:22 p.m.

  Bio:
  

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  Do some computational Numpy, Scipy, but would like to be a quality overall programmer and have heard that this book is the place to start.  Saw this on HN and thought it was a great way to follow the work, and keep motivation to work through it.

• 
  Jeff Carpenter   June 12, 2011, 6:20 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: BC, Canada

  Standard Set Answer:

   

  - I've been programming in an enthusiast capacity for years on and off, and have wrote code for my parents small business, and would like to learn some solid CS fundamentals. Having heard good things about the book, I think this course would be great.

  - Similar to my first answer -- I'd add that while I've learned a little Scheme, I still need to do more for functional programming to be an intuitive way of solving problems for me.

  - If necessary