[molodec]

Curious what modern schools teach in Computer Science programs. I went to Salisbury State University 17 years ago, and we had classes on assembly language, system programming and operating systems where we used C, algorithms classes with assignments in C++, computer graphics, which of course also C++. My professional experience working in industry was primarily in Java, but also some C, Python, Ruby. Learning Rust was not without a challenge, but having a lot of programming in C/C++ in school more than 10 years ago helped a lot. My assumption that all software engineers who have university degree should have some experience in system programming.

[sophiabits]

At my university the language used for teaching was predominantly Java, with Python or C# used in some papers.

There was an optional operating systems paper which had you writing some assembly to run on an in-house RISC system [1], but a small % of CS+SE students took that paper.

I think they’re trending towards using Python for most papers now. Not unreasonable for a paper on data mining or web development, but there’s definitely something being lost where students don’t /need/ to understand how the computer’s working in order to get a passing grade, so there’s no real incentive to dig deeper for the average student.

[1] https://wramp.wand.nz/

[tialaramex]

The University I work for teaches Java in Programming I (the mandatory introductory language) for Computer Scientists, and teaches them some C in Programming II and then a functional language, typically Haskell, and potentially some Rust, Typescript, whatever by the third year as some of the students will be pursuing Theory. The Electronics students learn C at the beginning meanwhile. Students elsewhere in the university learn mostly Python and R.