For the first time in the history of TIOBE's index, Java has slipped out of the top two, leaving Python to occupy the spot behind reigning champion, C.
I don't think very many other schools "go C++ all the way". The best ones probably start with a language like Python and then switch between C, something object-y, and something function. C is probably the most useful as it is lingua franca for Unix and has the ability to work with low level data structures, which every CS student is doomed to study. For applied math and physics, learning some of the big science languages, like R, Python, or Julia, would be good.
Apparently the university of Edinburgh starts by teaching students Haskell, which is an educational power move if I've ever heard of one.
I don't think very many other schools "go C++ all the way". The best ones probably start with a language like Python and then switch between C, something object-y, and something function. C is probably the most useful as it is lingua franca for Unix and has the ability to work with low level data structures, which every CS student is doomed to study. For applied math and physics, learning some of the big science languages, like R, Python, or Julia, would be good.
Apparently the university of Edinburgh starts by teaching students Haskell, which is an educational power move if I've ever heard of one.
Other schools or departments or whatever you call them in the same Polytechnic I go to do.
But starting out by Haskell... Wow, that's some big dick move right there. Weird as fuck.