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I did CS at Warwick and it was pretty good. Intro to Programming was taught using Java, but this is followed by a Functional Programming course taught using SML. The first year is pretty maths-intensive- a double-credit course in 'general' maths, a course in Discrete and an optional module in Statistics makes up about 50% of the year.
The campus is really nice, pretty big and plenty of green, but the nearest town/city is Coventry (Warwick itself is about 10 miles away), a lot of which is rather grim. The areas students tend to live are decent enough, but a lot end up travelling up to an hour (on the bus, 20-30 mins in a car when it's busy) each way to live in Leamington.

Uni is very much what you choose to make of it though, and up to a point, which uni you go to makes very little difference- coming out with a good result and plenty of 'soft skill' experience will matter far more to employers.