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Re:Why SICP Matters by mzs on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @04:19PM (#5634613)
I had a scary moment, looks like UofC still may do ten weeks of SICP:

http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/courses/description/CMSC/10500/99...

Re:Why SICP Matters by larsberg on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:05AM (#5637432)
That's an intro course for non-majors. Scheme is use in the curriculum for majors (the 151 course), but it uses the How to Design Programs text, not SICP. The Honors curriculum uses Haskell as its functional language, with touches on some other bits.

On a personal note, I learned using SICP up at Northwestern, but I'd be hard-pressed to justify it to a non-engineering school. Much of the math used in it hits harder on the engineering-style calculus (compute all the things!) than a more discrete math-y style that would be more appropriate for CS programs with a closer affinity to a math department (or schools like the UofC, which does not have an engineering program at all).