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CS degree from pitt.edu 1996 and C was not required. But a friend an I took it as an elective. We did not want to get out of school with CS degree and no C.

k__ 11y ago
We had to do the exercises of "Software Development 1" in C also I had 2 years C in high school. But it was only basic stuff. Most of university was Java and "use what you want", only a bit C++ for "Computer Graphics 2" (which I never did) I found it a bit sad, but on the other hand I never needed it.
- deaddodo 11y ago
  Wow. I started at a community college and they had two tracts for an Associate's in CS: Java and C++. Whichever you opted for, you took one class in C to get started; then 3 semesters of each language. You also had to take an assembler class or data structures and algorithms. Transferred that to a UC and we definitely touched more ASM and C in the OS courses.
aianus 11y ago
If not C, what did they have you use for systems programming? Like, in your Operating Systems course?
- steveklabnik 11y ago
  Pitt grad here, though a decade after the OP. Pitt has 3 courses related to this stuff: * CS 447: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/view/447 * CS 449: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/view/449 * CS 1550: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/1550 447 and 449 are required, 1550 is optional. 447 is almost entirely MIPS assembly, and goes into hardware architecture as well https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~childers/CS0447/ https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~childers/CS0447/ 449 is a C class, using K&R 2nd edition: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs449/2164/cs0449-2164-syllabus.htm https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs449/2164/cs0... 1550 is more specifically about operating systems, using Tanenbaum's book: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs1550/2164/cs1550-2164-syllabus-11am.htm https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs1550/2164/cs... So at least today, there's one class that's all C stuff. Almost all of the rest was Java, while I was a student.
- projektfu 11y ago
  I went to Pitt from 1996-2000. In the first OS course, we did have some programming assignments in C, but it wasn't a good course and the assignments were mostly just using the Windows API. In the second OS course, the professor and his student had been working on an operating system simulator in Java (DORITOS, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=736855&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D736855 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=736855...) and it was used to teach real-time systems programming without needing to get down to real hardware.
- andrewfromx 11y ago
  Turbo Pascal! I wrote this whole this to simulate file system inodes in pascal. We also did ADA and Smalltalk. But the main lang for everything back in my day was Pascal. Java was just starting when I was leaving.

k__ 11y ago

We had to do the exercises of "Software Development 1" in C also I had 2 years C in high school. But it was only basic stuff. Most of university was Java and "use what you want", only a bit C++ for "Computer Graphics 2" (which I never did) I found it a bit sad, but on the other hand I never needed it.

deaddodo 11y ago
Wow. I started at a community college and they had two tracts for an Associate's in CS: Java and C++. Whichever you opted for, you took one class in C to get started; then 3 semesters of each language. You also had to take an assembler class or data structures and algorithms. Transferred that to a UC and we definitely touched more ASM and C in the OS courses.

aianus 11y ago

If not C, what did they have you use for systems programming? Like, in your Operating Systems course?

steveklabnik 11y ago
Pitt grad here, though a decade after the OP. Pitt has 3 courses related to this stuff: * CS 447: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/view/447 * CS 449: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/view/449 * CS 1550: http://cs.pitt.edu/schedule/courses/1550 447 and 449 are required, 1550 is optional. 447 is almost entirely MIPS assembly, and goes into hardware architecture as well https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~childers/CS0447/ https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~childers/CS0447/ 449 is a C class, using K&R 2nd edition: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs449/2164/cs0449-2164-syllabus.htm https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs449/2164/cs0... 1550 is more specifically about operating systems, using Tanenbaum's book: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs1550/2164/cs1550-2164-syllabus-11am.htm https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/teaching/cs1550/2164/cs... So at least today, there's one class that's all C stuff. Almost all of the rest was Java, while I was a student.
projektfu 11y ago
I went to Pitt from 1996-2000. In the first OS course, we did have some programming assignments in C, but it wasn't a good course and the assignments were mostly just using the Windows API. In the second OS course, the professor and his student had been working on an operating system simulator in Java (DORITOS, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=736855&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D736855 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=736855...) and it was used to teach real-time systems programming without needing to get down to real hardware.
andrewfromx 11y ago
Turbo Pascal! I wrote this whole this to simulate file system inodes in pascal. We also did ADA and Smalltalk. But the main lang for everything back in my day was Pascal. Java was just starting when I was leaving.