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Originally Posted by biker1
I don't think it is really valid to say the colleges once taught programming languages. What was really being taught was data structures, algorithms, etc. and you learned these concepts typically through programming assignments....
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I was a professor reaching computer science at college. Personally I did not teach programming-languages, but other professors did.
Programming languages like Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, C, etc were taught in college because only after students know such languages, the more advance topics of data-structures, algorithms, etc could be taught.
There's no way to teach most advance topics in computer-science unless the student knows languages to implement, practice and build those topics.