Subject: Re: First Language (ever)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1998/01/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <6a1f5l$3c721@fido.asd.sgi.com>

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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