Thanks for taking the time to read it and the feedback. The complaint that languages with meaningful whitespace don’t copy and paste is significant. Oddly, in education is can actually have benefits as a cheat detector, but that’s not sufficient to overcome the challenges/frustrations for students.

If you are interested in how I teach CS1 and CS2 with Scala, here are links to my course websites from last semester.

CSCI1320-F18

https://sites.google.com/a/trinity.edu/csci1321-f18/home