
Sam W. answered 02/02/24
Master's in Nuclear Astrophysics: all 4 years were done in Fortran
The fact that it isn't a widely used language isn't important.
What is important is learning the UNDERSTANDING behind what you're doing and getting to grips with how programming works.
Most Physicists (like myself!) start (and continue) on Fortran. The most important part of the learning was that I understood how programs fit together.
Then when I started on other languages, like Python, I took to them very easily as I had the understanding from learning Fortran.
Learning new syntax of a language is the easy part.
So make sure you really go through the whole class and commit to it, which will set you up SO WELL for any kind of programming!