Intro to Comp Sci language breakdown

1 points by staticshock 16y ago ↗ HN

I'm interested to know what universities offer (or offered) as the programming language(s) in their introductory programming courses.

If you majored in computer science, or if you know about the introductory computer science program at some university, could you leave a message here with: University Name / Language(s) / Time Frame (or year)

I'm not interested in their relative merits, just the hard facts: what, where, when.

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staticshock 16y ago ↗

I went to UConn, which taught C++ until 2004 or so, at which point they switched to Java.

I also know that MIT used to run with Scheme, until just recently (2008?), when they switched to Python.

DanielStraight 16y ago ↗

Loyola University New Orleans / VB.NET, Java / 2004

Computer science program is now extinct though.

rcfox 16y ago ↗

University of Waterloo / Scheme / 2009 <-- Computer Science

University of Waterloo / C# / 2009 <-- Computer Engineering

miloshh 16y ago ↗

Cornell / Matlab or Java / 2009 and many years past. You can choose multiple versions of those courses. There is even a "robotics" version.