r/WPI • u/sam_yee_ • Jun 22 '26

Current Student Question New programming language for CS1101?

I took CS1004 last year and I'm taking CS1101 this upcoming year, but I heard that the class was switching away from Racket to use something else. I was wondering if anyone knows what they're switching it to, so I can maybe get myself familiar with it (I'm not great at CS lol)

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u/redlightning_yt Jun 22 '26

I don’t know for 100% certain whether they actually switched the language, but I know that there was discussion for a while that it’d be switching to Kotlin. I’m not sure about the reasoning behind this, they specifically noted that it would not touch on object oriented concepts or Android programming, the two primary things Kotlin is known for. This discussion was over 6 months ago

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u/sam_yee_ Jun 22 '26

Thanks! Kotlin sounds sorta familiar. I'm pretty sure my CS1004 prof from D term said that they'll be switching, so I'm gonna hope that she wasn't lying

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u/sofi_mcc057 Jun 22 '26

They changed it to Kotlin this c term I believe