took berkeley cs61a one of the ancestral homes of sicp.<p>it aint easy, and these were bright light 18 year olds.<p>keep going, skip if you need. look up the answer and learn from it.<p>but G*d Damn sicp, was it really necessary for one of the first assignments to do newton's approximations of derivatives!!<p>sheesh, how about a good old tic-tac-toe game ;)