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My eldest daughter is studying chemistry at the University of Prince George in Canada this autumn. As a part of the education they will take some computer courses and will learn one programming language. And which language does the faculty choose? C++. I have nothing against C++, I grew up on it. But, I am a developer. Why do she and other students in chemistry and physics have to learn about memory allocation and unsigned int’s, when there are languages with higher abstraction levels that are more suitable for their domain? I know they have the same approach at the University in my town UmeÃ¥ in Sweden. The purpose of computer courses for them must be to learn to solve problems and express algorithms in a programming language and the step between their world and the language shouldn’t be unnecessary big for no reason.