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MIT also switched from Scheme to Python for undergraduate CS programming courses. They did it for the libraries and ease of use.
by randomifcpfan 5y ago
MIT also switched from Scheme to Python for undergraduate CS programming courses. They did it for the libraries and ease of use.
- p_l 5y agoAnd because the goal of 6.01 was different from 6.001, which was the biggest thing in the change. A graduate of 6.001 was supposed to be on path to understand computation et al - a graduate of 6.01 is given enough skills to apply a bit of programming necessary for his next courses but isn't expected to actually grok programming, just string enough libraries together.