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What is the purpose of CS101 for CS majors? Is it to teach a tool you can use in your future courses? Then Java, Python and C++ are good choices. Or is it to t
by silverlake 12y ago
What is the purpose of CS101 for CS majors? Is it to teach a tool you can use in your future courses? Then Java, Python and C++ are good choices.
Or is it to teach the fundamentals of programming? Then Scheme is the ideal choice, but they should map concepts to mainstream languages. I.e., here's how OO works in Java, now we'll simulate it in Scheme. If more people took a course like this, we'd have fewer language fads IMO.