I agree that a quality university should teach better languages for the bulk of the major. The class does say "No prior programming experience required" though

I agree that a quality university should teach better languages for the bulk of the major. The class does say "No prior programming experience required" though. I'm making a similar guess as I believe you are that a lot of non-CS students are taking this class. If that's the case, it works great for them if they want to use a simple language to do some automation later in life in some non programming related job. From what I can tell, this class isn't part of the CS degree -http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofengineering/computerscience/#bachelortext http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofengineering/compu... unless this hasn't been updated yet.