With a new school year coming up, this is a question that's been nagging me over the years.
When I was in college (over 30 years ago--I'm old), I majored in Electrical Engineering but then changed majors to Computer Science.
At the time, C and C++ were the mainstream programming languages being used in the electronics system design industry in general.
But I remember being annoyed that the college(s) I went to only taught programming languages like Fortran, and that useless "academic" language Pascal.
In recent years, I worked with a lot of Cornell engineering students on project articles---pretty much all Microchip PIC32 based projects--and the programming language they used--- for about 90% of them -- was Python. I don't know how Python ranks these days as a language used in the industry, but I definitely hear a lot of buzz about it.
My question is, have any of you had a similar experiences in college where they didn't offer programming language courses that were in synch with the times? And has that situation gotten better to your knowledge?
When I was in college (over 30 years ago--I'm old), I majored in Electrical Engineering but then changed majors to Computer Science.
At the time, C and C++ were the mainstream programming languages being used in the electronics system design industry in general.
But I remember being annoyed that the college(s) I went to only taught programming languages like Fortran, and that useless "academic" language Pascal.
In recent years, I worked with a lot of Cornell engineering students on project articles---pretty much all Microchip PIC32 based projects--and the programming language they used--- for about 90% of them -- was Python. I don't know how Python ranks these days as a language used in the industry, but I definitely hear a lot of buzz about it.
My question is, have any of you had a similar experiences in college where they didn't offer programming language courses that were in synch with the times? And has that situation gotten better to your knowledge?