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Introducing Assignment: The Cost of Mutation

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/systems/semester-04-systems-programming/module-05-abstraction-interpretation/concepts/cluster-05-state-mutation-and-language-design/13-introducing-assignment-the-cost-of-mutation-primary.md
  • App: systems
  • Semester: semester-04-systems-programming
  • Module: module-05-abstraction-interpretation
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: generated_default

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Introducing Assignment: The Cost of Mutation in the language of the current curriculum, not just the source book.
  • Apply Introducing Assignment: The Cost of Mutation to one concrete learner task or example inside this semester.
  • Use sicp as a selective source of truth when the learner-facing explanation is not enough.

Prerequisites​

  • The earlier concept pages and practice tasks in the current module.

Source books​

  • sicp

Source routes​

Sicp​

  • /books/sicp/chapter-03-assignment-and-local-state via SICP 3.1 Assignment and local state, SICP 3.1.1 Local state variables, SICP 3.1.2 The benefits of introducing assignment, SICP 3.1.3 The costs of introducing assignment, SICP 3.1.3 The costs of introducing assignment (part 2)

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AI companion modes​

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Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance. Its canonical source backbone is the referenced book sicp, and outside material should only clarify or strengthen that backbone.