Indiana still does. They use it in a second-order fashion to get students going and latter they tell them that lambda is really a stand-alone value. The belief is that this helps the transition.
Shriram convinced me that it was silly and he needed several years. I switched and was so happy, I never looked back. On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > Slight tangent: > > Can you please point out which curriculum you are using to learn from, > as it seems weird. It's almost as if you're making things hard for > yourself. Could it be that the curriculum's to blame? I've never > seen an intro programming class start off with using lambda when one > hasn't yet seen functions with multiple arguments. I guess there's a > first time for anything... :( > > If it's your professor's own homebrewed thing, please point your > professor to something like How to Design Programs > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
