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A comment on Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of CS. Parent comment

Re:Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons... by wombatpm on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:24PM (#42678109)
Python supports imperative, OO and functional programming paradigms. And to start you can use any text editor, an IDE is not required. In fact you can start working in the REPL right away, in which case you need a terminal and the command “Python”.
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Re:Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons... by Jarwain on Sunday January 12, 2025 @07:33PM (#42678635)
All of that except for working in the terminal, could probably be considered higher level
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Re:Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons... by sorawee on Sunday January 12, 2025 @07:33PM (#42678632)
To quote the above person: "tell me you haven't read the article without telling me".

You thought that supporting multiple "programming paradigms" is a nice thing, but it's the opposite for teaching beginning student. Experienced programmers want expressivity/customization/choices to do whatever they want. That's not what newbies need when they get stuck on an assignment.

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