Department of Computer Science University of Otago

Summary of Responses

University	Language	Comments	Course Pages
University of Auckland	Java
University of Canterbury	Java Hugs
Lincoln University	Visual Basic
Massey University	Pascal	-
University of Otago	Pascal
Victoria University of Wellington	Java	-
University of Waikato	C++

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University	Language	Comments
Australian National University	Modula 2
Deakin University	Visual Basic
Griffith University	Haskell C
La Trobe University	C++ C	-
Monash University	C MIPS
Northern Territory University	C C++
Queensland University of Technology	Modula 2 C
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology	Java	-
Swinburne University of Technology	Java
University of Melbourne	Miranda C
University of New England, Armidale	C
University of South Australia	C
University of Sydney	Blue
University of Technology, Sydney	Eiffel
University of Western Australia	Java	-
University of Wollongong	C++
Victoria University of Technology	C++

Other related surveys include:

A survey by Dr Chris McDonald of languages used in Australian and New Zealand universities, click here.

A comprehensive list of first course languages for computer science majors in the US (19th edition, 10-06-98) is avaliable here.