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- From: 71020.1774@compuserve.COM (Terry Kaufman)
- Subject: Spread of Scheme and SICP?
- Message-ID: <921222144636_71020.1774_EHC61-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:46:37 GMT
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- Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
-
- >As a college educator who uses Scheme, I believe that Logo is a better
- >HS preparation for university CS studies which use Scheme than Scheme
- >is. There are several reasons for this:
-
- >- most HS CS students will never take further CS studies, and Logo has
- >the virtue of having a syntax which is (though less elegant, to my eye)
- >easier to learn than that of Scheme.
- > ...
-
- For the last six years, we've been teaching an introductory CS course to
- secondary school students using Scheme. We used Logo for several years
- prior to that. We found that our students actually had an easier time
- learning Scheme than Logo, because Scheme's syntax is more consistent.
- This is not to say they had difficulty learning Logo, but only that
- Scheme was easier for them and in addition, they derived all of the
- benefits that Scheme has over Logo in terms of elegance, flexibility, and
- expressiveness.
-
- It would be a mistake to discourage high school teachers from using
- Scheme. Besides as it continues to grow in popularity at the university
- level, Scheme has a much better chance than Logo to displace BASIC and
- Pascal in high schools.
-
- ... Terry
-
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-