The Australian National University teaches a course in Snap aimed at non computer science majors.
Whilst I was originally skeptical of the language and thought it might be "babyish" I was pleasantly surprised to see how expressive it was. Most of the labs use a javascript-y like object model behind the scenes and provide useful functional programming primitives (map/fold/etc <3).
The response from the students thus far has been pretty great. Some of them are looking into taking more programming courses as part of their degrees; often very separate from computer science. I'm not sure if we would have gotten this result chucking them straight into a CS101 course.
Whilst I was originally skeptical of the language and thought it might be "babyish" I was pleasantly surprised to see how expressive it was. Most of the labs use a javascript-y like object model behind the scenes and provide useful functional programming primitives (map/fold/etc <3).
The response from the students thus far has been pretty great. Some of them are looking into taking more programming courses as part of their degrees; often very separate from computer science. I'm not sure if we would have gotten this result chucking them straight into a CS101 course.
https://artofcomputing.cecs.anu.edu.au/