Ask HN: What programming languages are used in CS courses these days?

I did my undergrad '96-'99. The following were what my courses required us to code our exercises and projects in:

Core

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Intro to Programming => C

Intro to Data Structures => C

Advanced Data Structures => Java

Compilers => C/Lex/Yacc or C++/Flex/Bison

Systems Software => SIC assembly language

Operating Systems => C

Database => SQL and also a "build you own DBMS" project in Java

Electives

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Software Tools => Perl and Java

Neural Networks => C

Artificial Intelligence => LISP

As you can see, C was still mainstream but Java was on the rise. When I went to grad school around 2004, no surprise, Java had mostly replaced C in these same classes. You'll notice no Javascript, no Python, no cool Functional languages, etc. in this list. Just interested to see where things have evolved and especially to see if more "modern"/"cool"/"web oriented" languages have made it into the core courses yet or perhaps spawned new more relevant core course. Thanks for playing...

EDIT:

Hey folks, mind putting your year of graduation so we can pin the answers in time?

Also, since apparently no schools have moved very far past Java, care to speculate on how you might change the core curriculum if you could?

I graduated in '08 (wow that's 6 years ago already!). We used C++ for all the core courses except Data Structures, which used Java. C++ wasn't too bad as an intro language, with a very encouraging teacher. Java was a disaster because there was way too much boilerplate when you're just trying to write a toy data structure for an assignment. At the time I left, they were considering moving to Python for the intro courses, but there didn't seem to be much enthusiasm behind it.

And we used Access for our database course. Sigh.

That said, it wasn't as monolingual as it sounds. Even though the courses were geared toward C++, several of our teachers were enthusiastic polyglots (actually one of them spoke four human languages!), and we were encouraged to explore.

Most of the (non-systems programming, which use C) classes offered at my university are in Java but a few of them are taught in O'Caml (The programming language and compiler ones).

1st year CS @ ETH Zurich here

Intro to Programming => Eiffel (Betrand Meyer was our Prof)

Algorithms and Datastructures => Java (Pseudocode in PASCAL)

Parallel Processing => Java

Design of Digital Circuits => Verilog/MIPS Assembly

and in the next courses there will be some Haskell and more Java.