On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 2:46:38 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Seberino : > > > Instead of learning only Scheme or only Python for a one semester > > intro course, what about learning BOTH? Maybe that could somehow get > > the benefits of both? > > > > I'm thinking that for the VERY beginning, Scheme is the fastest > > language to get beginners up and running writing code due to the > > extremely minimal simple syntax. > > Scheme is my favorite language. I think, however, it is a pretty > advanced language and requires a pretty solid basis in programming and > computer science.
Have you seen this? http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/ Yeah from a certain pov scheme is so advanced that even Abelson and Sussman dont quite get it: http://blog.languager.org/2013/08/applying-si-on-sicp.html So (from that pov) how reasonable is it to expect students to get it? Also good to see: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
