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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by Ar-Curunir on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:34PM (#14169603)
Today it is not "many" students who come in to college with programming exp; for instance Berkeley's CS61A, which also moved to Python has over 1300 students. The overwhelming majority have not taken CS classes before.
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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by wolfgke on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:30PM (#14174928)
> The overwhelming majority have not taken CS classes before.

When I want to university I never took a CS class before and nevertheless could program really well. I believe one is not able to go to a university if one is not able to teach oneself the prerequirements of the subject that one want to study.

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Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) by watersb on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:19AM (#14171727)
Dang. 61A with SICP was my favorite class.
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