And you will find my name in the acknowledgements in the preface as I helped with the course development in its first two years. Gerry was my advisor as well for a while. I heard from him last month, when he finished his new K2.
Last year MIT started offering a mixed course for non-majors, of 3 units of Scheme (a mini version of this course) and the rest with high-level programming in Python. They teach Signals and Systems using both Scheme and Python now (not just Scheme), and I recently suggested a lab involving the popular SoftRock kits as a practicum. (In my day we had to build the FM demodulator...) Leigh/WA5ZNU > One of the authors of the textbook used in this course is WA1NSE: > > http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html > > 73, > > Dave, AA6YQ
