Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops?
by onychomys on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:07AM
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The University of Minnesota also uses it in their very first CS course.
Re:What if you couldn’t program with loops?
by knoebber on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:50AM
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Grinnell college intro class uses scheme.
I know of zero universities that use Scheme or any LISP.
Most nowadays that I know of start with Javascript. My old university started with C. It now goes straight to javascript.
Actually I think you do know of more than zero universities, since you replied to a comment that named Northeastern. A sibling comment to yours named another. Here's another: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci0170/
Just close your eyes and when you learn about recursion, closures, serialized data, evaluation, ... in Javascript, then just pretend you are using Lisp with a fancy notation. Even the original developer of Javascript wanted to do some Lisp/Scheme, was hired to do so and ended up with a slightly different language...
https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...
Im not sure how many colleges teach it 1st year but Northeastern University uses scheme as the intro language. The professor there wrote the blue book.