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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by shepardrtc on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:18PM (#11629871)
My university used to have an Engineering Fundamentals class that all Engineering students were required to take their first year. Among several other things, it taught how to use Excel and more importantly, programming using Fortran. It wasn't in-depth, but you learned what programming was in a pretty easy environment.
Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:30PM (#11629981)
We had a similar freshman pan-engineering course at Texas A&M that taught both excel and fortran among other things. Probably the most practically useful course in the entire program.
Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:21AM (#11635152)
My university offered "intro to unix". It wasn't required for anyone, but it did fill a general education requirement.

It was also one of the most practical, useful classes they had. A CS student who didn't take it (probably most of them) would still pick up most of the material by osmosis, but I think that class was a great idea.