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1401 points alankay | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.208s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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stuque ◴[] No.11939902[source]
What language do you think we should teach first to computing major students these days? What about non-major students?
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1. alankay1 ◴[] No.11945937[source]
"There aren't any really good ones" -- so computing major students especially should have to learn 4 or 5 very different ones and write fairly major systems in them.

We should take another pass at design for both majors and non-majors ...