I spent my first few undergrad years as a CS major at UT before this change happened, and had no prior experience with programming (I started in '97). The INTR

I spent my first few undergrad years as a CS major at UT before this change happened, and had no prior experience with programming (I started in '97). The INTRO-intro CS class at the time actually used Pascal, and was endlessly confusing to me as a cold beginner. My next course, however, was taught in Scheme, and immediately I felt more at home. And for the first time, I felt like I might have some actual aptitude for programming. Without that peek into the elegant heart of computer science, I doubt I'd have stuck with it as long as I did.