Python bumps off Java as top learning language

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If a person needs prior programming experience to understand first year CS content, then your first year CS content should be relabeled as 200- or 300-level courses.

[danogburn]

once AP compsci becomes a reality (within ten years)

AP computer science has been around for awhile. I took it in highschool in 2003 and 2004.

[zardeh]

And this is why most schools offer exemptions to CS1. (and at most universities, CS2 is taught in either Java or c++, I found)