It looks it would be easier to go through The Little Schemer first before pick up SICP, so here we go.

atom is the most basic building block, it could be a letter, a string of digits, a string of characters. Examples:

a
1492
atom
*abc$

list is one or …

So I finally decided to read through SICP, which is something maybe I should have done like 20 years earlier. The language scheme used in the book is a dialect of Lisp.

It is quite often that Lisp is described as the Latin in the world of programming languages: very …