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Re:Why I want Swift to be your first language by edgyswingset on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:03PM (#10131350)
I'd also argue that a super simple language like Scheme (or stripped-down Racket) would be pretty close to ideal for a pure intro class.

Introductions should be about learning how to reason about abstractions, and how to transform problem-solving from what's going on in your head into code. When you start out with something so rigid like C or Java you really confine a student's ability to reason about a problem because there's so much syntax to keep track of.

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Re:Why I want Swift to be your first language by coldcode on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:12PM (#10131784)
A Lisp-like language will only help you if you stay in the lisp world. A C-like will help you with most of the world's current languages in the Tiobe list.
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Re:Why I want Swift to be your first language by pmelendez on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:33PM (#10131900)
That's so not true in my opinion. There is a whole generation that was raised with Scheme as first language (and SICP ), I am particularly grateful that I was part of that and today I program (or had programmed) in most of the top languages in the Tiobe list as you say.
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