[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While studying the SICP video lectures I have to twist my mind some to > completely understand the lessons. I implement the programs shown there > in both Python and Scheme, and I find the Python implementations > simpler to write (but it's not a fair comparison because I know very > little Scheme still). > > Now some things are changing: > http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1840 > > >The MIT is going to change its curriculum structure that was famous for > >teaching Scheme in introductory courses. One force behind the reform is no > >one else than Harold Abelson, famous for his marvelous Scheme opus SICP.< > >The first four weeks of C1 will be a lot like the first four weeks of 6.001, > >Abelson said. The difference is that programming will be done in Python and > >not Scheme.< > > > Someone is translating the SIPC programs in Python too: > http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages#Python > > With slides and code from lectures: > http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.01/ > http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.01/fall06/calendar.html > > I like Scheme a bit too, but I consider this is a small victory for > Python :-) > > Bye, > bearophile
Hi Bearophile. (Is your name pronounced Beer-owe-file, or Bear-oh-fi-lee, just wondered :-) ? I too have heard about the MIT course changing to Python elsewhere and wanted to know why it was talked about so much? I'm from England, I know that MIT is a very prestigious university, but if Cambridge changed a course, or better still, The Open University changed a similar course to Python, I think I'd be hard pressed to hear about it. Is the MIT course syndicated to Universities around America or something? Cheers, Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
