Re:Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
by kpil on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:34PM
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I choose electrical engineering for some weird reason - I don't think it occurred to me that software engineering was a way of making a living even if I had been a hobby programmer since I was 12.
Luckily the introductory course was based on SICP - and it really realigned my BASIC- and C- damaged brain.
It turned out to be the only course that I enjoyed so I eventually switched to a more computer systems and sciences oriented education.
It was a good introductory course for me, and perhaps most others. Perhaps not good for the most daft though...
I guess you also need some assembler-skills but it's hard in a totally different dimension somehow.
Luckily the introductory course was based on SICP - and it really realigned my BASIC- and C- damaged brain.
It turned out to be the only course that I enjoyed so I eventually switched to a more computer systems and sciences oriented education.
It was a good introductory course for me, and perhaps most others. Perhaps not good for the most daft though...
I guess you also need some assembler-skills but it's hard in a totally different dimension somehow.