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I am currently an undergrad at Berkeley. I really like the current structure of our computer science program. We start in Scheme for Intro to CS, move to Java for data structures, and finish with C and MIPS for machine structures. After that, the upper division courses are either C++/Java/Python.

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I'll be surprised if you tell me that the end result isn't usually undergraduates who can produce mediocre, unidiomatic code in any of 6 languages. (I've no personal experience with Berkeley grads, just general cynicism.)

This would be true for any undergraduate program. Quality of the people is more important than the quality of the material used for instruction.

Why? What do you see wrong with the Berkeley curriculum?

cema had it right -- undergraduates in general like to optimize away their education.

Ok. I think you mean that they'll spend their time learning the basics of 6 different languages without getting in-depth in any of them.

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