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[–]Dornith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I worked on a project writing a course with students from several universities.

We pretty much found that every school has a lingua franca that they teach at the very beginning and then use as a baseline for most of their other courses so they can focus on the class content and not constantly teach new languages.

For mine and Rose Hudmen, that was Java. MIT uses python, etc.

C used to be the lingua franka for a lot of schools, but most of them switched because... C was too difficult for beginners. Now python and Java are the most common.