University is hardly a controlled environment; students are encouraged to get their projects working and then ditch them. There's very little incentive to write

University is hardly a controlled environment; students are encouraged to get their projects working and then ditch them. There's very little incentive to write good code. Remember, we're talking about intro languages here. It's a much better idea to teach languages that encourage good habits because then going to "wild west" languages like javascript is much easier.