My CS course at the University of Sussex, UK did this (in 1988) with ML, the functional programming language. Plenty of us had already been coding in C or Pascal before starting at college. None of us had done any functional programming. I loved ML: it seemed all elegant and beautiful and magical.
When I hear people starting their CS degree with C++ or Java, it makes me cringe.
When I hear people starting their CS degree with C++ or Java, it makes me cringe.