Many students want to know what language should they learn, either while in school for Computer Science, or even before they get there.

This of course varies between schools, but typically you can find Python, C/C++, and Java as some of the more common languages. However, typically, the school will offer and/or teach them to you, so you don’t have to know them when you get there.

However, if you do know the languages being used, check to see if you can test out of the course to save some money!

With that being said, there are a lot of other languages out there – they key is to learn the concepts behind the languages, so you’ll be ready for any language in the future.

What Programming Languages do I need to Know? – CS Student Questions was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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