<p>What are the common programming languages taught at most undergrad comp. sci. programs? I already know C++ and Java, I'm curious to know what else there is.</p>
<p>IMHO, the <em>good</em> undergraduate CS programs don't teach languages. They teach problem-solving. The languages are just tools.</p>
<p>The languages used by courses at Rice, where I graduated, were (in rough order):
1. Scheme
2. Java
3. C / C++
4. assembly
5. Jam*
6. C#</p>
<ul>
<li>we didn't actually write programs in this language, but we wrote parsers and interpreters for it, so we had to "know" it</li>
</ul>
<p>At UCLA, so far I have learned:
[list=0]
[<em>]C/C++
[</em>]Java
[<em>]Scheme
[</em>]Lisp
[<em>]ML
[</em>]Python
[<em>]Prolog
[</em>]Assembly
[/list]</p>
<p>anybody have to learn machine code?</p>
<p>Yeah, at USC, m68k assembly language is part of the first-semester computer architecture class. And you use it from every level, from writing programs in assembly, to translating assembly instructions to machine code, to designing circuits that process that machine code (yes, we get to build a subset of a m68k processor. A small subset :))</p>
<p>And before anyone says anything about m68k being outdated, yes, it is, but it is a classic example of an extremely well-designed orthogonal CISC instruction set that is fairly simple as well.</p>
<p>And yes, CS and computer engineering courses teach concepts, so really it's quite unimportant which language is used.</p>
<p>Yeah, we had to do some RISC (SPARC) machine code at Rice.</p>
<p>At Michigan State (late 80's/early 90's)..it was:</p>
<pre><code>* C/C++
* Lisp
* Pascal
* Prolog
* Assembly
</code></pre>
<p>The focus of CS is what you write, not what language you write it in. Some languages are better tools for certain problems than other languages, so you use them. Once you're a good programmer, it doesn't take much to learn a new language either.</p>
<p>CS is not about learning languages, its about using ADT's.</p>
<p>You can't use ADT's without a programming language to implement them. :rolleyes:</p>
<p><em>cough</em> lisp</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>sure you can, where did ya learn that.</p>