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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were getting a university CS degree at a good school fo “learn to code” you were doing it wrong. Actually colleges are doing it wrong because it is hard to learn to code in college if you are not a cs major. But cs is about algorithms and a logical way of thinking that ai will not replace. If that isn’t of interest happily you can learn to code with chat gpt now. At least in theory. [/quote]

In fact, most CS programs assume you already know how to code in several languages (and if you don't, you need to learn it on your own while doing work in a class using that code), and the really tough classes use 'made up' languages to test concepts, so you can't cheat with known code (the way linguistics classes sometime use made up human languages to test constructs).[/quote]

In fact, most CS programs assume that you would pick up the language pretty well and  pretty quickly rather than that you already know.

For example, my kid's first 2-3 CS fundamental classes were with Java and a made up educational language.
In AI class they use Python, Computer vision class they use C++, in game programming class they use C#.
They quickly go over the language characteristics, and expect you to pick up the languages along the way.
It'll be certainly great if you already know, but not really required.     
 
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I should add that in any case like everyone said, knowing how to code in the languages is a small part. 
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