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Ads was one of the languages used to learn basic concepts of programming at the university programme I attended. We Lisp and Ada where the two main language tha

Ads was one of the languages used to learn basic concepts of programming at the university programme I attended. We Lisp and Ada where the two main language that we used, to contrast the differences.

alex_duf 5y ago
You wouldn't have trained at the Computer Science University of Bayonne (France) would you? Because we also used Ada as our first language there.
- Tomte 5y ago
  University of Stuttgart, as well. One of the language designers was the department head for programming languages and compiler construction.
- dagw 5y ago
  Chalmers University in Sweden used Ada as its intro language for a while as well (late 90s).
- toolslive 5y ago
  KULeuven (Belgium) used Ada in the mid 90s for some of the programming-in- the-large CS courses. (So not as first programming language. That was Scheme or Pascal). It (Ada) got replaced by Java later.
- tcard 5y ago
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, too.
tialaramex 5y ago
I learned SML. At the time the CS department here had the philosophy that the introductory programming course should be in a language students were very unlikely to already know, thus putting the self-taught programmers on a somewhat level playing field with those who've never programmed a computer before. They did have to stream that intro course anyway, because irrespective of familiar syntax some people "get it" and some don't. I remember the bottom stream were named "Strugglers" but I don't remember what the stream for people it comes as second nature to is called, most people move up and down a bunch e.g. maybe they were fine right up until currying, and they go all the way from "Attend one lecture a week, complete the assigned work in ten minutes, hand in and we're done" to "I need both classes and the extra one-on-one tutorial to even understand the assignment, let alone try to do it" overnight. Today I believe they teach Java, or possibly Python, bowing to industry pressure to churn out people who can cut code on day one, as if that's the purpose of a three year degree. Interestingly the same university's IT department just hired me based on the rationale that although I don't actually know most of the technologies they're using, I clearly can just acquire everything needed as I go. So they don't believe this bullshit, but many people hiring their graduates do, and 18 year olds pick institutions with the best hiring rates.

Ads was one of the languages used to learn basic concepts of programming at the university programme I attended. We Lisp and Ada where the two main language that we used, to contrast the differences.

alex_duf 5y ago

You wouldn't have trained at the Computer Science University of Bayonne (France) would you? Because we also used Ada as our first language there.

Tomte 5y ago
University of Stuttgart, as well. One of the language designers was the department head for programming languages and compiler construction.
dagw 5y ago
Chalmers University in Sweden used Ada as its intro language for a while as well (late 90s).
toolslive 5y ago
KULeuven (Belgium) used Ada in the mid 90s for some of the programming-in- the-large CS courses. (So not as first programming language. That was Scheme or Pascal). It (Ada) got replaced by Java later.
tcard 5y ago
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, too.

tialaramex 5y ago

I learned SML. At the time the CS department here had the philosophy that the introductory programming course should be in a language students were very unlikely to already know, thus putting the self-taught programmers on a somewhat level playing field with those who've never programmed a computer before. They did have to stream that intro course anyway, because irrespective of familiar syntax some people "get it" and some don't. I remember the bottom stream were named "Strugglers" but I don't remember what the stream for people it comes as second nature to is called, most people move up and down a bunch e.g. maybe they were fine right up until currying, and they go all the way from "Attend one lecture a week, complete the assigned work in ten minutes, hand in and we're done" to "I need both classes and the extra one-on-one tutorial to even understand the assignment, let alone try to do it" overnight. Today I believe they teach Java, or possibly Python, bowing to industry pressure to churn out people who can cut code on day one, as if that's the purpose of a three year degree. Interestingly the same university's IT department just hired me based on the rationale that although I don't actually know most of the technologies they're using, I clearly can just acquire everything needed as I go. So they don't believe this bullshit, but many people hiring their graduates do, and 18 year olds pick institutions with the best hiring rates.