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It's dangerous to assume that the same number of people will continue programming if you start people on dynamic vs static typing. Maybe the static first progra

• bobthepanda 6y ago
  The anecdotal information I heard was that in general there were less people adjusting to later coursework successfully, in absolute numbers. From a pedagogical standpoint, if the point of an undergrad education was to produce people with well-rounded abilities in their field, I don't know that switching introductory courses to Python was the best move. Personally, I'm thankful that the first program I was enrolled in allowed me to "fail" fast, so that I quickly figured out that I shouldn't really waste more time and energy into the program and switched into CS. It's a lot easier to pivot as a freshman in your second semester than as a junior finishing the academic year. (And I knew people who took that long to switch majors, who either spent way more time and money or dropped out.)