[mettamage]

Skimmed it quickly and saw it taught Racket to teach programming design.

I've worked at a coding bootcamp in 2017. And I have to say, I was a bit jealous. Where I was learning through methods at university that were a bit quaint, my students learned JS with the latest frameworks. And sure, you can argue whether the length of 3 months is enough, but they were surely getting a better education. What they learned in 3 months, took me at least 6 months to a year in terms of how useful it is.

The thing is, especially as a beginner, learning any programming language will give you similar difficulties (glossing over some nuances). So why not just learn a practical one?

I think once a student has had a practical programming course under their belt, only after that should more esoteric languages come to showcase certain concepts. I believe that they'd be more motivated to learn them as they're more into the groove of programming.

And this is coming from someone that has programmed 2 years in Pharo.

[nxobject]

Are you sure you meant to post in the thread about NEU's intro CS curriculum?

[dang]

I've moved the comment there now. It was originally posted as a top-level comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676928; hence the 'wtf' replies. Thanks!

[ablation]

@dang Is this another instance of that concurrency bug in the comments?

[dang]

I hope not! because I thought I'd fixed that bug.

[plun9]

What?