Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > A few years ago, MIT switched from Scheme (which I believe originated > at MIT) to Python for its first course. There might faculty blogs > discussing the reasons. In any case, the course is one of MIT's free > online offerings.
Berkeley recently made the same transition. They had been mirroring the MIT Scheme-based 6.001 quite closely; I believe the Python-based replacement at Berkeley doesn't concern itself with tracking the new 6.001 at MIT. In any case, much (read: some) ink was spilled and consternation felt about the transition, but all in all my impression was that it went OK. IMHO, if you're going to switch from Scheme to something else for first-time programmers, Python is quite nice, as it reads exceptionally well and is very close to pseudocode in appearance sometimes. Of course, given that I didn't learn on Python, my opinions may be colored by prior experience. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
