Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language

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."

Re:another language shoved down your throat

[szmccauley]

could have been worse, it could have been javascript

The Future's So Bright

[Art3x]

I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.

Re:Which raises the critical question:

[tippe]

Who cares? Isn't the critical question always what editor they should program with? Everyone knows that real programmers use vim. Long live vim!

Here: something to distract you while I go duck under a desk [xkcd.com]

Re:"Top Learning Language" ...OR...

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny you should mention a memory class. I'm the Computer Science department head at my university.

I was going to introduce a memory class last semester, but I forgot.

Re:Which raises the critical question:

[Roger W Moore]

Wow - I never knew you could tell a real programmer by their choice of bathroom cleaner [www.rona.ca].

Re:Which raises the critical question:

[number6x]

vim! You are a reformed apostate!

How dare you split from the true path of vi? You might as well join be working for the forces of E.