> LISP dialects like Scheme are excellent for teaching pure computer science because they are the closest thing to executing lambda calculus expressions. Assem

> LISP dialects like Scheme are excellent for teaching pure computer science because they are the closest thing to executing lambda calculus expressions. Assembler too. For example, Knuth's [M]MIX in The Art of Computer Programming. That said, this is an introductory programming course, and there are separate courses focused on algorithms (which are not the same as programming). I agree with the article: programming has changed dramatically, while the core of algorithms remains largely unchanged.