Sussman is still teaching SICP through his Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming [1].
The Python course happened clearly due to politics and popular appeal. Sussman expressed his disappointment about it multiple times. Abelson did the same in the interview that's linked in this thread.
It is sad but a good example of how far the academic institution has fallen in this century. Ultimately it is the students that really lose out.
The Python course happened clearly due to politics and popular appeal. Sussman expressed his disappointment about it multiple times. Abelson did the same in the interview that's linked in this thread.
It is sad but a good example of how far the academic institution has fallen in this century. Ultimately it is the students that really lose out.
[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/