In my college here in Lisbon, almost all the courses that you did were in C, Programming 1 and 2, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, etc etc, except for OO classes. They changed it to Python after i left but i am glad that i had the opportunity to learn C, although i don't use it very often in the "working world". I reckon that Python is a nicer language to a freshman that has never seen code before, but they should of kept stuff like OS and Distributed Systems in C.