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[plt-scheme] Teaching Scheme

From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Mon May 3 14:47:08 EDT 2010		 
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:39:10AM +1200, Samuel Williams wrote:
> Dear Neil,
> 
> The reason why I think teaching MS Office and Visual Basic is a disaster is that basically we are not really covering core computer science concepts nor are we appreciating the real beauty of computer programming and algorithmic thinking. We are dipping our toes but we can't get our whole body in the ocean. In a way, that kind of makes me depressed.

Could one say that the essentials one needs to teach are the things 
Apple won't let Ipod and Ipad users do?

-- hendrik
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