6.001 was a second semester course, all incoming students had already completed a semester in undergrad calc and physics.
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/
"There’s a tremendous amount (of math) in this 6.001 book. That’s partly because we were writing it for MIT. You want to talk about higher-order procedures, so the obvious thing you can do is you can express the idea of an integral. So that’s an obstacle for lots of places. Remember, at MIT the context we were writing in is every person who took the course had just had a semester of calculus.
We actually did some versions for the Humanities faculty, where we didn’t do that at all, and we effectively started with the data structure chapter and then talked about the ideas for how do you structure and manipulate data, and then do abstractions over that."
HtDP is similar to their other version, starting with data. Author of that book has a good talk about creating a compsci curriculum
https://youtu.be/5c0BvOlR5gs
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/ "There’s a tremendous amount (of math) in this 6.001 book. That’s partly because we were writing it for MIT. You want to talk about higher-order procedures, so the obvious thing you can do is you can express the idea of an integral. So that’s an obstacle for lots of places. Remember, at MIT the context we were writing in is every person who took the course had just had a semester of calculus.
We actually did some versions for the Humanities faculty, where we didn’t do that at all, and we effectively started with the data structure chapter and then talked about the ideas for how do you structure and manipulate data, and then do abstractions over that."
HtDP is similar to their other version, starting with data. Author of that book has a good talk about creating a compsci curriculum https://youtu.be/5c0BvOlR5gs