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Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language

Posted by Soulskill on from the from-college-import-education dept.

itwbennett writes: Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Eight of the top 10 computer science departments now use Python to teach coding, as well as 27 of the top 39 schools, indicating that it is the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science courses, according to Philip Guo, a computer science researcher who compiled the survey for ACM."

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  1. another language shoved down your throat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    java was only "the most popular" because it was force fed to people who didn't want it

    now I guess python will be forced fed to people who don't want it

    1. Re:another language shoved down your throat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      could have been worse, it could have been javascript

      Javascript is actually a step up from Python. This does not say anything good about Python.

    2. Re:another language shoved down your throat by Darinbob · · Score: 0, Troll

      Right... so a Microsoft approved curriculum. Good for a trade school, awful for a person who wants to actually learn something.

  2. Congratulations Vinod Khosla by Baldrson · · Score: 1, Troll

    By investing Sun Corporation in making Java the standard programming language of computer science courses in India at the same time that the H-1b program expanded to take over the Fortune 500, Vinod Khosla managed to set the software industry back more than a decade.

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    Seastead this.
  3. Re:Which raises the critical question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    To start? I would guess 3.x since it is more self consistent (that is, they got rid of the legacy inconsistencies that they could).