(Ebook) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (JavaScript Adaptation) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman adapted by Martin Henz and Tobias Wrigstad

(Ebook) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (JavaScript Adaptation) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman adapted by Martin Henz and Tobias Wrigstad

The JavaScript adaptation of SICP is an open-source community effort.The software and data required for making these web pages and the PDF edition are containedin the github repositorySource Academy / sicp,and improvements, extensions and discussions are handled in this repository using git.Martin Henz started translating SICP to JavaScript in 2008. He obtained the originalLaTeX sources of the second edition from Gerald Jay Sussman, and converted them toa custom-built XML format. The original sources are retained in the XML format, whichallows for acomparison edition.A processing system written in XSLT resulted in thefirst version of the JavaScript adaptation around 2009, covering the first few sections of SICP.The content of SICP JS contained in theXML files are undergoing continuous improvement by the adapters Martin Henz and TobiasWrigstad, and by the community of SICP JS readers, using the github repository.In the book, program fragments often require other program fragments.In order to collect and execute the necessary programs, the correspondingSNIPPET tags in the xml files include REQUIRES tags. TheXML processors use these tags in order to assemble the executable programs.The project thus can be seen as a literate programming system, custom-madefor authoring SICP JS.