Why C language is taught in engineering?

For CS students C is important as it is the parent language for many others, and gives access to the operating system. For EE/EC it is important because they write code targeted at hardware. But for all other engineers, such as civil, mechanical etc.

Why do colleges still teach C and C++ when you can’t even build anything with these programming languages?

So C++ skills are in high demand. It is the industry drive for these languages is why they are taught in colleges.

Is C programming still relevant?

C/C++ is still powering the world despite number of new high level programming languages. Most of the major software applications including Adobe, Google, Mozilla, Oracle are all written in C/C++. There is a complete article on list of best applications written in C/C++.

Why should we learn C language?

Being a middle-level language, C reduces the gap between the low-level and high-level languages. It can be used for writing operating systems as well as doing application level programming. Helps to understand the fundamentals of Computer Theories.

Why is C++ mostly taught in universities?

In the end, there are a few reasons why C++ is predominantly taught in universities: It builds on top of C; therefore, the transition from C to C++ is not too painful. Quite a few universities teach C before C++ (which makes a lot of sense IMO).

Should languages be treated the same as other courses?

In school, knowledge-based topics like history, economics, math, and science are all studied in the same way: as a collection of facts that need to be absorbed. Since languages are taught within the same academic structure as these other courses, students fall into the trap of believing that they should be treated the same way.

How can I get better at programming as a computer engineering student?

Many of your fellow computer engineering students will have already done a lot of programming, so you may already be behind the curve. This is a good time to start catching up. The only way to get good at programming is to do a lot of it. The more time you spend programming in the next few years, the better you will be at it.

How can we solve the problem of language learning in schools?

One way to potentially solve this problem is to teach students directly that success in learning a new language will ultimately be their own responsibility. A teacher could communicate this to the students from the very beginning, saying something like: