You have been voted down, but this is 100% truth. I’d been a professional software developer for 10 years and programming since a young child when I stumbled ac

You have been voted down, but this is 100% truth. I’d been a professional software developer for 10 years and programming since a young child when I stumbled across the MIT Scheme open course (this was nearly 10 years ago now). Learning Scheme as an exercise dramatically improved me as a software developer, as it is the near perfect teaching language. The fundamentals of most computer science concepts are so clearly laid out, with no distractions. I wish I’d had the exposure at a younger age! MIT Scheme is pretty much useless as a practical language, vastly less useful than Python. Python is infinitely more powerful to actually “make things”. But this is not the point of University! The academic languages are powerful for learning, and it is a huge shame that they are being replaced with “professionally relevant” languages.