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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by tmccrmck on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:43PM (#14169282)
Berkeley used to let students skip the introductory CS course, 61a (in Scheme), if they had received a 5 on the AP CS exam. They removed that option I believe after fall 2010.

One of my friends was able to skip 61a by meeting with the department chair, Paul Hilfinger, and convincing him that 61a would be a waste of time for him. My friend could drone on and on about the simplest of subjects so we assumed he just annoyed Hilfinger until he said "enough already".

Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by jnordwick on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:56AM (#14171280)
Hilfinger also liked to give people enough rope to hang themselves many times over with.