We haven't got any girls in our class - computing at our school seems to be a male-dominated area.
We're using RealBasic (ugh!) - OK for teaching, not nice for coding - we're on Mac OS X. I'm currently trying to find a way for installing Eclipse on the computers to use Java / Python / another proper language.
Our major works from past years have used lots of different languages - anything from Flash to C++.
Done the dev. stages, control structures, data types, now onto BNF, EBNF, etc.
But our teacher makes sure it's a practical course - lots of coding! (fun for me, not so fun for the people who want to play online games - flash)