It isn't the first thing they teach you at Purdue but a sizable chunk of CS and ...

arethuza · on Sept 23, 2010

I remember meeting someone who said "oh yes, we did assembler in our course" - upon being questioned they had been doing .Net CLR instructions.

So much for the 6502 assembler I grew up with :-|

dangrossman · on Sept 23, 2010

Interesting. In my CS degree ('08) the languages used in the few classes that involved actual programming were: C++, Scheme, Prolog, Python and Java. Never anything that would require proprietary software like Visual Studio.

rbanffy · on Sept 23, 2010

Consider yourself lucky.

A CS degree is not where you learn "market skills". It's where you learn to build the stuff that will define what "market skills" are.