I was taught obsolete things in college in the early 90s. But FORTRAN wasn’t the useful part of the class–problem-solving and broader language exposure was.
People focus on random technologies that are being used in class as being obsolete, but that’s not the point of college. You can learn technologies on your own, and if you have trouble with that, maybe practicing it in college is a good idea.
Basically we’re going to drill on technology-agnostic fundamentals for 4 years, and use a wide variety of technologies and languages as vehicles for that so you get a good breadth of experience.
I was taught obsolete things in college in the early 90s. But FORTRAN wasn’t the useful part of the class–problem-solving and broader language exposure was.
People focus on random technologies that are being used in class as being obsolete, but that’s not the point of college. You can learn technologies on your own, and if you have trouble with that, maybe practicing it in college is a good idea.
Basically we’re going to drill on technology-agnostic fundamentals for 4 years, and use a wide variety of technologies and languages as vehicles for that so you get a good breadth of experience.