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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Here at </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Simon</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fraser</span></font><font
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size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font
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using Python in our new first-year programming course. It’s still a work
in progress, but you can take a peek here at the course weblog:</span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://sweetness.typepad.com/cmpt_120_sfu_surrey_fall2/</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The plan here is to use three different programming
languages in the first three CS courses: Python, Java, and then C++ (for data
structures and algorithms).</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Toby</span></font></p>
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</st1:PersonName>School of Computing Science (</span></font>Surrey)<br>
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