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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by gumby on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:18PM (#11632384)
When 6.001 was introduced, a surprisingly large number, perhaps a majority, of MIT students arrived without having leaned how to program. SCIP was their first exposure to programming.

That's inconceivable to me now.

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Re:Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP by Apocryphon on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:05AM (#11633955)
I think Berkeley's EECS curriculum starts with functional programming instead of imperative. Need someone to confirm.
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