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Can you name a school that teaches a student only one CS course expecting them to be a programmer? This is never explicit, but the reason many schools make Jav
by michaelochurch 15y ago
Can you name a school that teaches a student only one CS course expecting them to be a programmer?
This is never explicit, but the reason many schools make Java the default language is because it's more "employable" than Python or Scheme.
If you're a CS major, you've probably been exposed to Lisp or Python in your AI class, C in your OS course, and ML and Prolog in your PL class and the "default language" matters, from a CV perspective, a lot less because people've been exposed to more languages. The default language matters in this way for those who take one or two CS courses and then try out for programming jobs in the future.