{"product_id":"2026200015344-secondhand-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs","title":"Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew textbooks have earned the near-mythical status of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — affectionately known in programming circles as SICP or the Wizard Book — a foundational masterwork that has shaped the minds of computer scientists for decades. Written for MIT's introductory computer science curriculum, it presents the core principles of computation through the elegant lens of Scheme, a dialect of Lisp, guiding readers through abstraction, recursion, interpreters, and modularity with a rigour and clarity that few technical texts can match.\n\nHarold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, two of MIT's most celebrated educators, construct a vision of programming not as a mere technical skill but as a profound intellectual discipline — one concerned with the nature of processes, data, and the very act of building languages. The book's influence reaches far beyond academia; it has inspired generations of software engineers, language designers, and computer science educators worldwide. Those who work through its celebrated exercises emerge not just as better programmers, but as deeper thinkers — and the question it ultimately poses, of what it truly means to *compute*, lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203202326747,"sku":"2026200015344-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f5d30100-6d94-46d5-b1f5-7c1071c9a53c.png?v=1788145544","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015344-secondhand-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}