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Re:Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (2016) by dang on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:20PM (#27898771)
Past related threads:

Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18782101 - Dec 2018 (136 comments)

One Reason That MIT Should Reinstate Scheme and 6.001 (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18386223 - Nov 2018 (38 comments)

Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167453 - April 2017 (97 comments)

Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13105896 - Dec 2016 (9 comments)

Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628080 - May 2016 (232 comments)

SICP is being taught again at MIT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482117 - Jan 2012 (37 comments)

SICP is still used at MIT at graduate level. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235589 - Nov 2011 (3 comments)

Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842333 - Sept 2009 (38 comments)

Chiming in on the MIT Scheme to Python Switch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622261 - May 2009 (7 comments)

Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602307 - May 2009 (65 comments)

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530605 - March 2009 (128 comments)

MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75401 - Nov 2007 (16 comments)

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