Michael Tuchman <mftuchman@yahoo.com> wrote:
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| This actually brings up a tangential question:
| I think that today LISP can be used as a teenager's first programming
| language, but does anyone have any direct or secondhand experience with
| Lisp and young adults?
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<URL:http://www.schemers.com/schools.html> lists schools which use Scheme:
245 colleges/universities worldwide - 98 of these use Scheme
in introductory courses
143 colleges/universities USA only - 50 of these use Scheme
in introductory courses
40 secondary schools worldwide
35 secondary schools USA only
The secondary schools are listed at the end, but only two give URLs which
can be explored for further details:
Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, CT
http://www.gfacademy.org
http://www.gfacademy.org/CurrGui/Computer.html
Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Plantation, FL
http://www.imacs.org/
http://www.imacs.org/wizzh.html
http://www.imacs.org/wizzi.html
-Rob
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