[biker1]

It didn't work that way when I was an undergrad. The first month of the first class was devoted to teaching the syntax of PL/C and then it was on to non language specific topics.

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.