Lisp (Scheme) was the introductory language taught for CS and EE majors at MIT when I started as an undergraduate, and I found it to be the most intuitive langu

Lisp (Scheme) was the introductory language taught for CS and EE majors at MIT when I started as an undergraduate, and I found it to be the most intuitive language I had ever seen. More recently MIT switched to Python. Either one is a much better choice that Java. I would never have gone into CS if MIT had started us off on Java.