jbd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Joanne Bechta Dugan) (06/25/87)
I've been considering using the Abelson and Sussman book for my
intro computer science course this fall. The book has been very
highly recommended. It is the book used in the first course at
MIT and the the course is taught using "scheme" (a variant of
lisp). My problem is this: In most schools (as is true here at
Duke) , the second course offered is "data structures," but it
seems a bit silly (to me) to teach data structures using a
lisp-like language.
What does MIT do ? What do other schools do for the data structures
course if they use scheme for the first course? What would you
suggest?
I could, of course, spend the first week or so of the second semester teaching
Pascal - any comments?
Thanks,
Joanne
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