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My school handled this cleverly by taking people with prior programming experience into a Haskell sequence, which suitably kicked our asses to the same degree a
by closeparen 4y ago
My school handled this cleverly by taking people with prior programming experience into a Haskell sequence, which suitably kicked our asses to the same degree as what the first-time programmers were getting.
- a_e_k 4y agoMy college's CS program did the same, but with Scheme back in the day. I can't complain, since I was introduced to Emacs along the way, which I still use heavily to this day. And while I don't really use Scheme anymore, it made Elisp trivial to figure out.
- tobych 4y agoMy CS course at the University of Sussex, UK did this (in 1988) with ML, the functional programming language. Plenty of us had already been coding in C or Pascal before starting at college. None of us had done any functional programming. I loved ML: it seemed all elegant and beautiful and magical. When I hear people starting their CS degree with C++ or Java, it makes me cringe.
- bluebluetimes 4y agoWhich school was this? Was this UT Austin by any chance
- helloooooooo 4y agoUWaterloo does this.