[justinram11]

My intro class was taught in lisp (and had been for the previous decade or more), but I learned that about 2 years after I graduated that they also began offering it in Python.

Several of my class thought that was a very "useless" way to kick off the degree, but I really liked the immediate introduction to recursion (blew my mind when it clicked) and felt it leveled the playing field quite a bit for everyone entering the course.

[tristanbvk]

We did recursion in maybe like 7th week or so I guess. It was later on, but I think it really hit with second year compiler course.

[debanjan16]

> My intro class was taught in lisp

Was it SICP in Berkeley?

[justinram11]

CSCI 1901 (Computer Programming I) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities