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MIT 6.001: Introduction to Lisp and Managing Complexity

MIT OpenCourseWare · Lecture · YouTube title: Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
Why it's here

HN people recommend the SICP lectures as a deeper, livelier route into the book and a formative course even for seasoned programmers.

What it covers

The first lecture of MIT's 6.001 (SICP) with Abelson and Sussman, giving an overview of the course and an introduction to Lisp. It argues that computer science is about managing complexity and abstraction, not computers.