MIT's EECS undergraduate enrollment cratered after the
"dot.com" crash, more than halved, after being 40% of the student body for decades.
The department panicked.
And it was most certainly ordered that Scheme be entirely purged from the base curriculum, even while they claimed they were teaching SICP concepts and functional programming in 6.005, they were using Java, a language that's "not even wrong" for the purpose (that, at least, has been improved to Python, which is only [fill in the blank] hostile to FP).
Not one of the department's finer moments, from my no direct interest in EE at all viewpoint, but from a less biased one you can safely say a MIT EECS degree now means something quite different. And it's a damned shame for those outside the department, for whom 6.001 was truly valuable, that MIT no longer offers anything in its niche (outside of a rearguard 1 month version of it during January).
MIT's EECS undergraduate enrollment cratered after the "dot.com" crash, more than halved, after being 40% of the student body for decades.
The department panicked.
And it was most certainly ordered that Scheme be entirely purged from the base curriculum, even while they claimed they were teaching SICP concepts and functional programming in 6.005, they were using Java, a language that's "not even wrong" for the purpose (that, at least, has been improved to Python, which is only [fill in the blank] hostile to FP).
Not one of the department's finer moments, from my no direct interest in EE at all viewpoint, but from a less biased one you can safely say a MIT EECS degree now means something quite different. And it's a damned shame for those outside the department, for whom 6.001 was truly valuable, that MIT no longer offers anything in its niche (outside of a rearguard 1 month version of it during January).