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Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by legutierr on Saturday November 09, 2013 @12:22PM (#6702266)
By looks of the course number, this is a third or fourth year elective for undergrads. It seems that what is being taught here is the design and engineering of programming languages, not programming itself.
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Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by dbpatterson on Saturday November 09, 2013 @12:28PM (#6702288)
That's correct - 173 is definitely not an intro course. But, we also are teaching an intro course with it:

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2013/software.html

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