Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style

This is the textbook used for the introductory CS course (CS61A) at UC Berkeley. The course material is available at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs61a.org&#x2F;fa18" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs61a.org&#x2F;fa18</a> (The course uses Python 3, Scheme, and SQL).<p>There are some neat projects (students build a Scheme interpreter and implement game logic as part of the projects)<p>Previous Hacker News Discussions (from which I’ve copied my comment)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11465234" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11465234</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3491142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3491142</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3141996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3141996</a>

Huh, I already thought this was suspicious reading the title, as Python does not have in-built TCO and indeed, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;composingprograms.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;17-recursive-functions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;composingprograms.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;17-recursive-functions.h...</a> does not even mention Stackoverflow errors and neither does it introduce a decorator to avoid them. Under these conditions however, it is impossible to compose programs &quot;SICP Style&quot;.

People who find this interesting might find this answer of mine on stackoverflow interesting as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;44729275&#x2F;1163490" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;44729275&#x2F;1163490</a>

Great effort. I cannot find exercises? Do authors plan on adding those?

Very nice formatting for the content but it feels like it&#x27;s missing three chapters on category theory and two chapters each on the AST module and the `compile` builtin after that last chapter on recursion.