Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:30PM
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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.
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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:21AM
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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.