Comment Issue not mandatory course but language change (Score 1) 785
It is a good thing that UW is offering a course to people applying to Electrical or Computer Engineering. Programming is an important part of those disciplines but cannot be a required course from high school.
The problem is if the choice of C# over C++ hurts the quality of the education.
Note also that over the past decade we have changed from Fortran to C to C++
Ryan C-W
