Here's a comparison of the curricula used in traditional and Scheme-based courses. The data were provided by Michael Hunt, a teacher at Houston's Awty School.

Week	Pascal, 11th Grade	Scheme, 9th Grade
1	introduction	algebra, functions, DrScheme
2	syntax	conditionals
4	Turbo Pascal, i/o	design recipe
5	numbers, strings	symbols
6	algebra	linked lists
7	text files, top-down	structures (via lists)
9	conditionals	graphics, recursion
10	loops, big-O	lists of unbounded length
14	procedures, stubs	lists containing lists
16	gcd, compound interest	consuming and producing lists

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