CS Majors, what language do you use?

[AFB]

What do the majority of your classes use?

 

[WobbleWobble]

Java/C++

 

[edmicman]

when i was in school: c, c++, java
now that i'm in the real world: asp, vb, javascript

class was useless

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

I'm only in the Intro course right now, we use Python for this course.

I think future classes will be Java and probably other stuff.

EDIT: You can also click the link in my sig and look around at class websites.

Languages come and go though, you'll learn general things.

 

[phillydog]

When I was in high-school I used: BASIC, Pascal, and C
When I was in college I used: Modula-3 (like pascal but with pointers like C++) and Java

In the real world, C++ is being used, but Java and VB.net seem to be the norm in my profession. Some customers use C# as well, but that is microsoft proprietary.

 

[DT4K]

I got my CS degree in 2001.

Programming I - VB6
Programming II - Java
Programming III - Java
Networks I - N/A
Intro Databases - VB6 / MS Access
C and Unix - C obviously
Advanced Databases - VB6 / MS SQL Server
Machine Structures and Assembly Language - x86 assembly
Client/Server Development - Don't remember
Compilers - C
Systems Analysis - VB6
Corporate Web Development - Classic ASP w/Javascript
Data Structures - Java
Topics in Computer Science(Oracle DBA) - mostly just PL/SQL
System Software/Architecture - N/A
Systems Programming - C
Capstone I - whatever you want. I did mine in C.
Capstone II - same

 

[notfred]

I guess java more than anything else, but also x86 assembly, C, C++, bash, and various crappy pseudocodish things.

 

[mattg1981]

C and Java ... havnt even touched C++

We also did this crappy assembly language called MIPS

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: mattg1981
C and Java ... havnt even touched C++

We also did this crappy assembly language called MIPS

I never touched C++ in undergrad either. But I just started work on an MS and I'm taking a C++ class right now because it's a prereq for the grad level classes. Having C and Java experience, I've found it to be pretty easy to pick up.
Combine the low level memory management stuff(pointers, memory allocation, etc) that you learned in C with the object oriented concepts you learned in Java and you pretty much have C++.

 

[oog]

graduated in 1993 -- scheme, lisp, c, c++

since that time, vb4 through vb6, c++, c#, java and vb.net

 

[UCJefe]

Graduated 2002. Basic programming series was in C++. Other classes involved assembly, C, Perl, Scheme/LISP, Java. Mainly C/C++ though.

 

[Supermercado]

I graduated in May and we used C for a lot of things but some classes we were given the option of using whatever we wanted as long as the programs did what they were supposed to. The first three semesters were Java, then we moved on to C and C++ and from there on, you could use whatever you wanted. I stuck with C so that's what most of my stuff was done in. We also dabbled a little bit in Javascript, Perl, and a tiny bit of PHP in our database class. In my last CS class, I wrote the program in C, but had to be familiar with both gforth and Lisp (it was a basic compiler that took Lisp code and made it into executable gforth).

 

[tfinch2]

The intro to CS class that I T/A for is taught in Scheme, which is being changed to Python next semester. After that it's mostly Java. There are assembly courses and SysAdmin classes. There is a languages class where you pick your own. Mostly Java though.

 

[kamper]

In school it's been just about all C (to start with) and Java (more common in upper courses, except compilers and operating systems). There was a smidgen of python in there too.

By reading this you can tell which schools microsoft has it's tentacles in I've been thouroughly indoctrinated against microsoft

 

[EagleKeeper]

English

CS did not exist at the time.

Programming languages being used in the real world at the time were Fortran/Pascal/Cobol/RPG/Assembly with futuristic LISP

 

[Zugzwang152]

all 100-200 level classes were taught in Java, except for 1 200-level, which was the intro to C/C++. Haven't gone past that yet.

 

[screw3d]

C++ and Java..

Perl, PHP and all that in a web programming class which is not a required class.

 

[Firus]

Java, VB6, C++, Javascript, C, SPARC Assembly, In that order...

 

[mundane]

Core classes were all Java - only one on C++. Since then we touched some Scheme/Lisp, VAX assembly, C#. Intership used Python and Visual C++ exclusively.

 

[JavaMomma]

I'm just finishing my degree also.

Progamming I, II - Java
Visual Programming, VB6 (took it the year VB.NET came out)
Computer Graphics - C
Operating Systems - C
Data structures - C++
Machine Architecture - VAX/VMS assembly!!!
Network Programming - Java
Systems Analysis - VB6
Online Programming - Perl

 

[HJB417]

Originally posted by: edmicman
when i was in school: c, c++, java
now that i'm in the real world: asp, vb, javascript

class was useless

school -> c++ & java and a touch of m?asm
realworld -> .net (managed c++ & c#)

 

[Goi]

I only speak C, MIPS and Alpha assembly. I forgot all my C++

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
English

Java, C/C++/C#

- M4H

 

[mattg1981]

Originally posted by: Goi
I only speak C, MIPS and Alpha assembly. I forgot all my C++

doesnt mips suck? I hate it .. especially recursion

 

[Goi]

Well, MIPS is pretty much the standard RISC load-store architecture ISA taught in schools, almost everyone uses it. Alpha is very clean too.