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by dwaltrip 4450 days ago
They don't teach HTML in physics or stats. Most people also don't take an intro to computer programming course.
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They may not teach HTML, but my alma mater taught python to freshman physics students. By senior year, you would have at least learned two additional languages. That's just from the physics courses - if you decided to take an intro to cs course (which most did), you would have learned a fourth (but probably not a FORTH).

While they wouldn't specifically know HTML or Javascript, they'd know enough to how to read the language documentation and gain basic proficiency in a week. They wouldn't be a Douglas Crockford, but they could help out an open source project.

Of course, this was at a state school. Things might be different elsewhere.