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This was a Kickstarter a year ago (i baked too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/sicp-distilled https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/

by fu86 11y ago

This was a Kickstarter a year ago (i baked too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/sicp-distilled https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751759988/sicp-distill... Unfortunately the author still not be able to fullfill the goals :/ So, bookmark this and visit it in a year or two again.

macmac 11y ago
I am with you, and also a backer. The original goal was exceeded by a wide margin (£12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal). 12K GBP is a non-trivial amount of money. There are no videos (if you exclude a low quality recording of a talk on the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk), no screencasts and the text only covers a few of the topics outlined in the campaign.
- thattommyhall2 11y ago
  Either of you please email me with your backer number and I can refund you or turn what you paid into a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières if you are not happy. I am very pleased with what is there so far, think it genuinely captures all the best bits in an accessible way. I am most proud of the Escher and Evaluator bits and associated projects. I have lots more partially complete, feel I have a fair bit of momentum now and do still intend to make videos as I said in the update to backers, backers will see them first. I am genuinely sorry it has taken so long to get this out. I think I was quite fair minded re: pricing etc during the kickstarter. I changed it from a sliding scale to allowing unlimited people taking the lowest amount (£20), then created a 'pay what you can' tier and invited people to switch to it if they wished. Best wishes, Tom
  - DigitalJack 11y ago
    I think you are off to a great start, and appreciate the effort.
  - agumonkey 11y ago
    It seems like a communication problem. If you're still going forward but don't push sub-par content out in the public due to pressure, this is acceptable; but if people don't know (I can't read the KS status updates, but there's not many of them) they'll be angry just because of that.

by fu86 11y ago

macmac 11y ago

I am with you, and also a backer. The original goal was exceeded by a wide margin (£12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal). 12K GBP is a non-trivial amount of money. There are no videos (if you exclude a low quality recording of a talk on the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk), no screencasts and the text only covers a few of the topics outlined in the campaign.

thattommyhall2 11y ago
Either of you please email me with your backer number and I can refund you or turn what you paid into a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières if you are not happy. I am very pleased with what is there so far, think it genuinely captures all the best bits in an accessible way. I am most proud of the Escher and Evaluator bits and associated projects. I have lots more partially complete, feel I have a fair bit of momentum now and do still intend to make videos as I said in the update to backers, backers will see them first. I am genuinely sorry it has taken so long to get this out. I think I was quite fair minded re: pricing etc during the kickstarter. I changed it from a sliding scale to allowing unlimited people taking the lowest amount (£20), then created a 'pay what you can' tier and invited people to switch to it if they wished. Best wishes, Tom
- DigitalJack 11y ago
  I think you are off to a great start, and appreciate the effort.
- agumonkey 11y ago
  It seems like a communication problem. If you're still going forward but don't push sub-par content out in the public due to pressure, this is acceptable; but if people don't know (I can't read the KS status updates, but there's not many of them) they'll be angry just because of that.