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what school did you go to? My university (Radford) did teach Ada as well the first year, way back in 1999, and switched to Java after it.

I liked Ada a lot, but Java gave me employment after school.

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Western Washington University. I think they dropped Ada from the first courses in 2012 or 2013. Would be curious to see how those courses heavily featuring Racket have changed in the last decade while Racket was rapidly improving.

They were teaching Ada in the Intro to Computer Science classes at Truman State in the mid-2000's as well. I think they eventually switched to Python sometime after I graduated 2008.

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