Combining our curriculum with an AP course gives students this advantage early on. These students would be much better prepared to handle the rigors of college with a broader curriculum. There is actually much more material in our curriculum than would fit even a year of high school. Some people who have seen Lisp's syntax on paper are concerned by this. In reality, editing Scheme on a computer is must easier than editing most other syntaxes.
Students take about one day to learn the syntax, and can then move on to learning real concepts.
In fact Scheme is a fairly different language with a much more refined and modern philosophy. If you have prior Lisp programming experience, it will only help you on the first day of our five day workshop.