How advanced do programming languages get in computer science courses?

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    How advanced do programming languages get in computer science courses?
    Do they get to GUI stages or are you stuck in DOS?
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    Re: How advanced do programming languages get in computer science courses?
    Depends on uni to uni.

    Regarding GUI it's not that important to be taught on its own and shouldn't be taught at uni (Just look at unix) It's a thing you pick up yourself . Different programming paradigms, design patterns, methodologies, data structures and algorithms are taught which are language independent. Cs is more theoretical course and the programming part is taught minimally where you are meant to pick up yourself with your own time. For example if you graduate with good grades for your programming related lectures doing all your assignments and don't do any coding by yourself you still wouldn't be able to produce industry level code.
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