RIP. I think I was one of the last years to take this wonderful class. I guess it would have been in 2004 or 2005, since I took it as an elective (being an Econ major) on the strength of its reputation. It was hard but so interesting!
Since then MIT has switched its intro CS class to be python based. I suppose that makes a little more practical sense but there's something magical about Scheme that I fear they're missing out on.
I remember being a freshman and seeing the lecture hall 32-123 being temporarily hack-renamed to 6.001, and I didn't know what that was all about. I think it was the last lecture of 6.001, but I didn't know what it was back then.
Since then MIT has switched its intro CS class to be python based. I suppose that makes a little more practical sense but there's something magical about Scheme that I fear they're missing out on.