im definitely not part of the past generation, but i get your point nonetheless. cs courses now are more focused on creating industry-ready developers than they

im definitely not part of the past generation, but i get your point nonetheless. cs courses now are more focused on creating industry-ready developers than they are on creating solid academic programmers. in this sense cs courses now are much more vocational than they are academic. if we can agree on this difference between developers and programmers, then i still agree with the familiarity statement by the parent also by the way, the recently released follow-up to SICP [0] is still in very much in lisp, MIT Scheme to be specific (like the original SICP). however, this book is far from an introductory text in software engineering [0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility