Scheme was taught in my first year of CS. One thing I noticed is that those who hadn’t coded through their teenage years found scheme much easier to learn than

Scheme was taught in my first year of CS. One thing I noticed is that those who hadn’t coded through their teenage years found scheme much easier to learn than other languages we were being taught in the first year. I think that was because scheme felt more like mathematics and everyone had done A Level maths (in the UK), many to an advanced level. Immutability and functions make a lot more sense than weird variables that keep changing and - what the heck are classes? We just unlearn this mathematical thinking when we start hacking Python etc.