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		givan on July 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python is now the most popular introductory langua... Is sad that students never get to learn something like http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... they could easily learn any other language after, learning just java or python is practical only to prepare them for a corporate job.

Igglyboo on July 7, 2014 | [–]

The article only talks about introductory classes, most universities with decent CS programs will teach more than one language.

postnihilism on July 7, 2014 | [–]

It's not as though students won't dive deeper after their introductory CS course.

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