I would be making the same fuss in your position, however your teacher might not feel confident teaching a language he doesn't know, despite all the good talkin

I would be making the same fuss in your position, however your teacher might not feel confident teaching a language he doesn't know, despite all the good talking points raised here. If he sticks with VB, I would ask him to spend some time later in the course making students aware that there are other languages, styles and platforms. Offer to help - write him a couple of pages on it, or pick a simple program from his course and translate it into Python/Ruby/C/Scheme/etc for him. Good luck. Edit: To the person who disagrees with my advice, could you please let me know which part and why.