[rbongers]

I would just expect MIT, of all places, to go quite low. I suppose everything has to come to an end, and MIT can't have the most intensive course forever. I just can't help but feel it's representative of what's happening everywhere.

[IshKebab]

Yeah you have a point. I would hope they have a more introductory module available first but I feel like SICP should be an advanced module for people specifically doing compsci. (I have no idea how American unis work; maybe it's already like that.)

I definitely remember when I did an engineering degree at Cambridge they had us doing assembly and typing decimal opcodes into a numberpad on an ancient microcontroller dev kit. I understood it but it sure was tedious and off-putting. And I say that as a typical HNer who has programmed forever and I even ended up doing CPU verification professionally. I imagine everyone else absolutely hated it.