I was speaking to a student at our University today and it looks like the introduction to programming is being moved from Java to C#.
I suppose that speaks of Java's demise in popularity as of late. However it may also be just that at the time I was there, the person who taught programming was very anti Microsoft. It may just be the new person in charge is personally more in favour of the Microsoft camp. As regards Visual Basic. When Visual Basic was one of the few languages I knew (along with Turbo Pascal) it seemed OK to me. After having learned Java and trying to go back to Visual Basic I found it very frustrating and very much lacking in features to which I had become accustomed. I think C/C++ are pragmatically important to learn at some point but they seem to take a very very long time to master. Even if you understand perfectly the theory of how they work, it is still very easy to make mistakes in them leading to memory problems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
