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Looks like we are using Linux in university (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I started university today, I'm on a more general IT department. In first semester we have only one subject that is actually IT (rest is maths and english) that is about basic programming in C. And it turns out that university computers that we will use for this subject are all running Ubuntu. I planned to bring my laptop anyway because I want to have my configs, but it's still great that students who never used Linux will be introduced to it (for some basic stuff tho).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think coding in C is basic stuff, depending on the IDE, you can learn about using the terminal, compilers and if the course gets far, memory allocation, a really important tool in Linux programs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I mean basic programming in general, as basic as it gets. It's not guaranteed that every student has programming experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Plot twist: they code in replit or smth like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Learning COBOL