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ITidiots open forum > What programming Languages to they teach at Uni these days

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??

January 23, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

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....

January 24, 2010 | Registered CommenterGreg 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.

January 24, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

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.

January 25, 2010 | Registered CommenterNicky 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!

January 26, 2010 | Registered CommenterGreg 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

January 26, 2010 | Registered CommenterSupernova

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.

January 28, 2010 | Registered Commenterjoey pesci