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impendia on March 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java vs. Scheme in Education

I do remember playing with Scheme in freshman CS. It was fun as hell. You type in (+ 2 7) and it spits out 9. No

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araneae on March 24, 2011 [–]

That's not an insurmountable advantage. In the freshman CS class I took they started us out with a GUI that had an interactive prompt.

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