Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
by CalChris on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:30PM
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Berkeley EECS is MIT-lite and its 61A used SICP/Scheme. They even wanted us to use emacs (which for me, so wasn't gonna happen). So pretty much everything in this article applies to Berkeley EECS as well. They've also shifted from SICP/Scheme to Composing Programs/Python.
The last time I used Scheme was in 61A. I like Scheme; it was elegant. I probably would have continued to use it but Instructional Computing had a bastardized variation. I'm pretty sure that students of 61A will continue to use Python since they're using Python 3.
http://cs61a.org/articles/about.html
The last time I used Scheme was in 61A. I like Scheme; it was elegant. I probably would have continued to use it but Instructional Computing had a bastardized variation. I'm pretty sure that students of 61A will continue to use Python since they're using Python 3.