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Re:Why did we ever think a student's first programming langu... by rgoulter on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:10PM (#27648197)
At my university, there was an intro to programming course which used Scheme & was inspired by SICP. I took the course with previous programming experience (Java, Python), and found the course straightforward. I also knew students who took the course having programmed in C++, and who struggled with the course.

I'm not sure "do SICP exercises in scheme having learned Python/C++" is really about transferring programming fundamentals. The SICP exercises seemed really geared towards a small lisp.

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