July
8th,
2014
Source : Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM

Python is
currently the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science courses at top-ranked U.S.
departments. Specifically, 8 of the top 10 CS departments (80%), and 27 of the top 39 (69%), teach Python in
introductory CS0 or CS1 courses.
Source : Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM