MIT lectures on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, as taught in 1986 by Gerald Sussman and Harold Abelson, are available online in youtube and MIT OCW's website. The videos are available in 240p/360p: very poor quality for visualizing the code in the slides. In addition to that, the camera won't fixate on the board for long, making it extremely difficult to follow.
This project's intent is to make the lectures' code and content readable (unlike the slide below) and available in digital format.
I tried to maintain consistency of notation, comments and indentation throughout the lectures. Much of the original indentation on the slides was maintained, except for when I was able to improve readability by changing it. Lecture breaks are also noted.
Every SLIDE, TERMINAL or BOARD content is marked with the time of appearance. E.g.
;# SLIDE 0:00:00
... slide content
;# END SLIDE
- I have added comments and remarks throughout the code to help comprehension.
- Though all files have extension .scm, their content represent a literal transcription of the slides, some of which isn't code. They're expected to fail to compile in all Scheme interpreters.
- I have fixed the code on a few, rare occasions. In all of them I've noted the correction using a colon followed by an exclamation mark. Notice that ';!' was also used, once or twice, in the lecture slides.
- it's clearly readable
- it's not code
- its content isn't "textable"
- Standardize syntax and style across the transcription files.
