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Graduated in 2013, started in 2008. C was used for 101, Systems programming, Operating Systems, and Networks. There was an elective HPC class which taught CUDA C. C++ was another elective class. Java for 102, Algorithms/Data structures, software engineering, and oddly enough Compilers (along with ANTLR for the parser). Programming Languages was Racket or ML depending on the teacher. There were also elective HTML/CSS/…
Data Structure: C#
Patterns: C#
Web client: HTML/CSS and jQuery
Web server 1: Java
Web server 2: ASP.NET (WebForms)
Database 1 & 2: SQL Server 2005 & 2008
Project: ASP.NET MVC 4 + Entity Framework
There was a course on logic gates etc. where we learned MIPS assembly.
The database course used SQL.
A course on algorithms used Python so we learned that as well.
Then we had a course on languages. Half of it was devoted to Common Lisp, but it also touched on languages such as Java and Prolog.
Alice/Java => "101"-type class
C/Perl/Shell => Intro to Systems
C => rest of the systems branch
Java => Data Structures
Standard ML => functional and logic classes.
Many of the more esoteric electives used their own thing. For example, I used Serpent in Computer Music Systems.
The curriculum changed in my final year. The new students now do:
Python => "101"-type classes and basic data structures and algorithms
Standard ML => parallel data structures and algorithms and other functional and logic classes
C0 transitioning to C => Systems courses.
I do think our distributed systems class was experimenting with Go at some point.
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 cours…
OP here, all my C courses had the extra requirement that they compile under GCC on a Solaris box; not for our education but for the prof's benefit of using an automated "turnin" program for grading. Thank god though, I had one cool professor that let me use Visual C++ while everyone else used GCC. The productivity boost allowed me to beat everyone in getting the regular projects done and then give me extra time to co…
Haskell Java Prolog C and C++ NASM assembly
Then depending on the optional modules you chose you might also do a couple of more specialized languages like Matlab.
There was also a mandatory course involving building a multiplayer networked game with total flexibility on language, but predominantly people did browser based games with one of PHP/Python/Perl/Ruby and JavaScript (although NodeJS wasn't around in 2008 when I did the project, but I'm sure people are using it now).
We use Python for our introduction course (still 2.x due to a library incompatibility) and Java for the next level course.
After that, it's about 90% Java, with C++ for certain courses. Only exception I can think of is Databases, where we use MySQL and write programs to interface with it in mostly PHP (but also some Java at the end).
I'll be a senior in college next year. We use Python for our introduction course (still 2.x due to a library incompatibility) and Java for the next level course. After that, it's about 90% Java, with C++ for certain courses. Only exception I can think of is Databases, where we use MySQL and write programs to interface with it in mostly PHP (but also some Java at the end).
I'm going to a technical college, but (in order of exposure so far) C++, Java, VB, C#, SQL, Javascript. Haven't touched python yet, unfortunately.
Intro: Java
Data structures/algorithms : java
Advanced data structures/algorithms: java
Programming languages: C/scala/javascript
web development: php/js/sql
databases: sql
logic: prolog
networking: C
Comp. Organisation: x86 asm
electives:
Operating systems : no code at all
embedded systems : C
digital systems : VHDL