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The video lectures and problem sets from the UC Berkeley course (CS 61A) taught by Harvey are very good (and freely available), although you will need to use Berkeley Scheme to get the most out of it. Two months is ambitious, but you can get a lot out of it in that time even if you don't finish.


Do you know how they compare to the original lectures by the authors? Or the MIT OCW lectures? I've been meaning to dive into SICP and trying to decide if I want to use a video supplement, and if so, which.


One of the good things about the MIT videos is that they don't have the amount of "administrative stuff" which the Berkeley lectures have (ie stuff about where this and that lecture will be next week etc etc). So the berkeley lectures could do with editing that out. OTOH I think Brian Harvey is a very good lecturer as are abelson and sussman. Sound quality on one or two of the MIT lectures is poor in parts. If you have time might not be the worst idea to watch both sets. Edition 1 of the book was current for the MIT videos whilst edition 2 is current for the berkeley series.


Definitely agree about the administrative stuff! Stanford videos have that, too. (At least the ones I've seen.)




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