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My university started with Java. Fortunately two of the (especially intelligent) professors wanted scheme to be the first language we were taught. Of course the other professors voted against that because they wanted something more "relevant", so Java it was.

So instead there's a required programming languages course we spent half the semester learning/using scheme and the other half using it to understand other types of languages.

It's definitely worth taking the time to learn IMO.