MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class

Re:MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class by ctkrohn on Friday November 02, 2007 @05:28PM (#75594)

Interesting. All my friends at MIT absolutely hated Scheme after taking that class; I don't know what the general sentiment there is.

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Re:MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class by Zak on Friday November 02, 2007 @11:01PM (#75704)

Did your friends say what it was they hated about Scheme after taking that class? I can see where people might make an association between the language and the difficult tasks they were being asked to perform with it.

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Re:MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class by mdakin on Sunday November 04, 2007 @01:20AM (#75975)

This is probably a personality thing. Many of my friends at MIT loved 6.001/SICP/Scheme and most of them at least respected it. Personally the class rewired my mind in fundamental ways and I appreciate that.

That said I trust the folks running the Course VI department. I have not looked into the specifics of the new program but I suspect it is a fine program.

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