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My CS degree course used SML as the first language to teach everyone in the first semester. Put everyone on the same level, as it was unlikely people would have
by trollied 2y ago
My CS degree course used SML as the first language to teach everyone in the first semester. Put everyone on the same level, as it was unlikely people would have prior experience. Also made it easy to teach things like recursion.
Really enjoyed it.
- peterstjohn 2y agoHa, same here! It really helped my imposter syndrome, as I overheard a couple of guys talking about the ARM assembly they were doing on their Archimedes on the first day…and I hadn't written anything fancier than QuickBASIC at the time…
- trollied 2y agoWas actually lucky enough to be taught by the co-inventor of the ARM cpu. Furber is awesome.
- peterstjohn 2y agoFor my sins, I didn't actually realise how great that was until quite a bit afterwards! ;)