ITidiots open forum > What programming Languages to they teach at Uni these days
For me we learned Cobol and Waterloo Basic....at green or amber terminals. An operator ran your code from a little white room next door to the lab. Really, I hated programming....
Greg Fyn
Waterloo BASIC never heard of that one, i did learn some basic at home on the zx81, c64 and later some gwbasic.
Cobol is one i hear a lot about , but never looked at. I know we had it on one of the old DEC mainframes at a place i worked at many years ago.
I wouldn't choose software development as a career I couldn't stand sitting at a desk all day for a start.
Supernova
Well for me school was:
Spectrum
BBC BASIC
College was:
more BASIC
Pascal
University was:
Visual Basic (the class booting and loading from network took ages)
Modula 2
C
6800 (room full of Amigas!)
Smalltalk
Lisp
Prolog
I do remember having particular fun with Prolog, getting it to solve logic puzzles etc.
Nicky Curtis
@Supernova
Waterloo BASIC was developed by the University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada (Canada's where I lived before moving to the US).....good old spaghetti code....Yuck!
Greg Fyn
@ Nicky
Yeah i have used prolog at university not apart of the course but for a project, i brought a copy of binprolog that produces C code great for adding natural language interfaces to applications
Supernova
We did
COBOL
PASCAL (I wrote a keylogger for this for the college network to nick use names and passwords :) quality coding? Not really as it was in the help file if you looked :) although I did add really basic encryption too it )
C++
JAVA
Visual Basic
By the time I got to uni and we were doing Java and C++ I was totally bored of programming and hardly ever turned up for the lessons.
joey pesci
When i was at uni, computer science and engineering, it was
* Mathematica - maths and simulation
* Miranda - functional
* POP-11 - AI and robot simulations
* Modula 2 - like pascal
* C/C++ - Software development and a unit on OS's, writing parts of an OS using Minux (Minix) as a framework for the 6800 via a cross complier.
* Assembly for 6800 processors
I hear a lot of places teach Java rather than C++
What did you learn or currently learning??