Teaching programming languages (Score 1)

The fact that some Comp. Sci programs have courses dedicated to the learning of a given set of languages is different from what I've seen at my school. It's contrasting with my experience (at McGill) where there is no such courses. I only had 2 classes so far where the main topic was about software design. In any other classes, if they ever happen to require yo to code anything, it's up to you to manage this by yourself. Combinatorial proofs, and proofs or all sorts, tractability, and some of probability/statistics are the main elements we learn to deal with. The course named "Programming languages and paradigm" is actually about parsers, types proof, and lambda-calculus. This has a taste of the the good old debate of comp. sci vs software ing, but this is not the point of my comment.