Some colleges still teach Dr. Racket to CS majors, engineers learn in interviews
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-15
An engineer shared a fun discovery: some universities still have Computer Science majors learn a language called Dr. Racket (the teaching IDE for Scheme/Racket) — many in industry had never heard of it until a job interview. Others chimed in with similar examples from their schools, sparking jokes about how CS curricula can diverge from what industry actually uses.
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