I took Scheme for my second programming course, after C++. I think Scheme is simpler to understand. It also allowed students to explore various concepts that w

I took Scheme for my second programming course, after C++. I think Scheme is simpler to understand. It also allowed students to explore various concepts that weren't available in C++. I enjoy the course. But since I never took compiler theories and other courses on programming language, I never bumped into many of those concepts again except for those where modern languages adopted the same feature, and I ended up having to relearn them anyway. Hence, I would also argue that these days, most students would have been better served starting with a practical language.