Surprising quote: "Several instructors reported that female students like the HtDP curriculum exceptionally well. In a controlled experiment, an htdp-trained i

Surprising quote: "Several instructors reported that female students like the HtDP curriculum exceptionally well. In a controlled experiment, an htdp-trained instructor taught a conventional AP curriculum and the Scheme curriculum to the same three classes of students. Together the three classes consisted of over 70 students. While all students preferred our approach to programming, the preference among females was a stunning factor of four. An independent evaluator is now investigating this aspect of the project in more depth." That said, what I really liked about my SICP course at Boston Univeristy in 1987 was the fact I could do all the exercises on our office PC (an 80286), with Emacs as the IDE. Quite heady stuff back in day.