I got a copy because of the reviews, but found the prose style pretty painful, and at least the early material to be basic, so I never got far into it. If you open e.g. AIMA to a random passage, you'll find it's just got more vigor than this book, without losing its textbookiness.

I'd like to see more books like this that use programming in teaching another subject, like Sussman and Wisdom's SICM.