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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by 2arrs2ells on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @03:54AM (#2169591)
Is this really the standard "academic way"?

At my school, CS classes started in C, did a touch of PHP/JS, then a functional language (was scheme, now OCaml), and then a giant hodgepodge of whatever you/the professor wanted.

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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by wlievens on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:50AM (#2169687)
We started with Scheme, then in the second year C++ and some Common Lisp. Later Smalltalk. You learned Java on your own, which is near trivial if you know C++ and Scheme.
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Re:How should I get started with programming? Which language... by sliverstorm on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:48AM (#2169684)
Java and C are the most common staples, and at lower-grade schools potentially the only languages.
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