On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 3:43:25 PM UTC-5, Chris Seberino wrote: > 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. > > I'm thinking half way into the semester, instead of moving into intermediate > Scheme, perhaps that is a good time to switch to Python? > > Would a little strong intro to 2 nice languages in one semester be > same/good/worse/better than just 1?
No. LISP-like languages are very different beasts, requiring different mind-sets. It's like going from geometry to arithmetic. Or trying to teach OS/2 (which had great abstract ideas) and switching to Linux without covering the architecture and engineering underneath them. mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
