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I am a Portuguese living in Germany and every time someone describes me how CS degrees work here, I always feel sorry for my work colleagues.

When I took my degree in Portugal in the mid-90's, it was a 5 year long degree, with heavy mix of theory and practical subjects in lots of programming languages.

I got to use C, C++, Prolog, Camllight, Java, PL/I, Algol, Pascal as compulsory ones. Plus many many others that I got to learn/use as part of the compiler design lectures I used to attend to.

All CS areas had introductory levels as compulsory, with the more advanced ones as optional subjects. Given the way the credits were set up, quite a few of those advanced ones were also required.