Comment by fn-mote

HtDP is an introductory textbook. It shouldn’t have new material for someone who has 2 years worth of experience.

That said, while I didn’t learn content from it, the exposition of their process was excellent. It really influenced my “personal software process” a lot. Also, it gave me a lot of tools for informal postmortems that I reach for when mentoring junior colleagues.

The book’s taxonomy of the different kinds of recursion helped me see what others found difficult about it.

Background: I liked SICP but HtDP made it easier to see the content as one unified subject instead of a bunch of tricky/interesting individual exercises.