In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MilkmanDan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of >Tech studying electrical engineering. > >I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer >science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C++. >After further research, it seems to me that C++ seems to be the >dominating language in universities. > >By comparison, our local community college teaches a few classes in VB, >Java, Javascript, C++, and for some reason, PASCAL. > >I'm certianly not against any of this, but out of curiousity does >anyone know of a school that teaches Python? >
There are many. Wartburg College <URL: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ > is an example. <URL: http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ > likely will interest you. I'll gratuitously add that, even though I'm personally fond of C++, I think teaching it as is done in colleges and high schools (!) amounts to child abuse. It's wildly inappropriate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
