Subject: Re: Felleisen giving a talk at UW? What a good idea...
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 14:11:23 PST
This is an over-beer conversation. Let's meet over some double-bock at 4:40 or
so this afternoon. Bottom line: we should get him out to talk (e.g. a DL next
year), but it won't change the language we teach in. And teaching our intro
courses in Java isn't so bad; the students have bigger issues than Java.
-- Craig
Sorin Lerner wrote:
>
> Keunwoo, Andrew and I were lamenting yet again over how we have to teach
> C++/Java in our introductory programming courses, and how places like
> Rice, MIT and Penn teach ML or Scheme. But lamenting over our situation
> doesn't do us much good. So we thought instead about what concrete actions
> we can take.
>
> One idea that came up is to invite Felleisen to give a talk at UW about
> DrScheme (something like his POPL talk). Getting him to come as a
> distinguished lecturer, or even just as a 519/520 seminar, would be great.
> I think it would be a good and manageable first step. It would raise
> awareness and encourage discussion on this topic, which might then lead
> to concrete changes in our curriculum. Craig, do you think this is a
> good idea? If so, what actions do we need to take to get it done?
>
> Sorin
>
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