One of the classes offered in my major (biochemistry) is "Python Programming for Biology" which is generally the first exposure that most of my peers get to programming, and I tell anyone who will listen how important that class is. Especially in the sciences, Python has a plethora of scientific libraries and great resources to do just about anything that a non-career coder would need. Except in computational chemistry everyone's stuck with ancient libraries, and I recently met an anarcho-capitalist grad student doing all his research in Fortran. Cool guy.