[scott_s]

MIT did not abandon SICP: it decided that it no longer wanted to teach core CS concepts.

Wait, what? Are you claiming that the MIT undergraduate CS program does not "teach core CS concepts"? Or are you only talking about a single introductory course?

[pavpanchekha]

Haha, just 6.01, the world hasn't ended yet.

[hga]

Yeah, but how well is the rest of SICP transmitted in a course using Java (6.005, at least according to the original plan)? Based on what I've seen (at a distance nowadays), MIT decided fundamentally change what it means to get an EECS education and degree in a panic move when enrollment dropped by half after being steady for decades.