[OT] Teaching Haskell in High School

Arjan van IJzendoorn afie@cs.uu.nl
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:31:43 +0100


Michael Sperber writes:

> This seems like a backwards way of approaching teaching the intro
> course.

I like to look at it as a a track.

> (Besides, is this really suitable material for beginners, let
> alone high school students?)

Ah, there's the catch. They are not beginners; they are CS students who
already learned about Java. When it comes to other disciplines and high
school students you're right that TeachScheme is ahead of us and we know we
have a long way to go.

Cheers, Arjan