Re:OO is not Computing, Newer is not More modern
by paxswill on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:13AM
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Not in my experience. C++ is taught at my school, and a mix of C++ and Java is used at most (all?) the other schools in my state as the intro language. Even MIT, the source of SICP/Scheme, is using Python for its intro language. It's only much later are you exposed to other languages (at my school, Java, ML and Prolog are explicitly covered).
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Re:OO is not Computing, Newer is not More modern
by UK-AL on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:21AM
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Maybe I should state. Most schools that USE SICP/Scheme use it as introductory language. Most don't however.
MIT has only recently moved to python. That introduction course used to be Scheme based which converted to python. I believe they have a optional scheme course now.