[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/