> I think it's absurd to start with Scheme. A graduate who knows Python but not Scheme has a hope of doing something with computer science. A graduate who knows

> I think it's absurd to start with Scheme. A graduate who knows Python but not Scheme has a hope of doing something with computer science. A graduate who knows Scheme but not Python is basically unable to use computers at a technical level. What language you start with and what languages you know on graduating are going to be different. It takes 4 years to get through most bachelors programs (without taking summer terms, very high course loads, or coming in with a bunch of transfer credits). It's no more absurd to start with Scheme than to start with Python when there are at least 7 semesters remaining to learn more. If a graduate only knows what they learned in CS 1, they aren't a CS graduate even if they got that slip of paper. They conned the school, or the school conned them.