> I'm not so sure someone who's good with Scheme will be bad with Python or Java. The problem likely has always been the companies / HR rather than the student

> I'm not so sure someone who's good with Scheme will be bad with Python or Java. The problem likely has always been the companies / HR rather than the students. > I also suspect that Python is not a particularly good first language for someone who aims for a professional career building software. It's not a particularly bad one either, certainly better than Java. IIRC a secondary benefit is that it allows overlap between some of the basic CS, and the CS/CE courses for non CS track students