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Originally Posted by raananh
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.
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Except for Assembly, all those were taught in my high school, in the late 1970's. I took C++ and Visual Basic, and advanced C++ and advanced VB, at the community college in the early 1990's just because I wanted to learn them. They were definitely taught, and both C++ and VB are real actual legitimate programming languages.