> Try teaching functional programming
> in straight Java 6, or object oriented programming in Basic.
Oddly enough, I 'discovered' functional programming in straight Java
(5 at the time), and object-oriented programming in Basic (Blitz Basic
2).
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With your first point, I agree that core skills (though what those
core skills are end up being a discussion itself) are the most
important for a beginning programming student. But the language
choice heavily influences what core skills you can teach and how
effectively you can teach them. Try te
File.separator is intended only for rendering paths to the user. A windows
user is going to be very confused by C:/foo/bar.
It serves absolutely no purpose anywhere else, and I consider it a bug that
this concept is not properly documented in the appopriate java doc.
Feel free to mark down any
This sounds great, but is basically nonsense. The history of programming
language is a heck of a lot more complicated than this pretty but wrong
picture that its been an ever increasing waltz from low-level to high-level
in neat chunks.
For example, there was a heck of a lot of functional progr
You might want to ask this question on the GWT googlegroup, as single-page
design is a common theme in GWT apps, and all GWT webapps suffer, heavily,
from the indexing problem, as its mostly javascript.
As you mentioned, analytics is trivial, there's a JS API to log analytics
hits, and AFAIK a
Yup. Three cheers to Stephen for continuing work on JSR-310 in spite of
Oracle's piss-poor management of non-oracle community-driven contributions.
Though, I'm kinda interested in why this is happening at all. Presumably
because the good folks at OpenGamma want JSR-310 finished?
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Just to properly blow this discussion to the netherworld, where it belongs:
If you think apple's "mail" program is a better mobile mail experience* than
google's own gmail web interface that loads by default if you visit
gmail.com on an iPhone, then you're weird. and wrong.
Yes, apple _in gene
Sorry to bust your bubble. I'll keep it short:
1. Grey Poupon is just one of 30 mustard makers.
(your fallacy is that you're insinuating that with many phone makers, one
can never control the market or set all trends. I have no idea what kind of
logical reasoning you're using to come to this co
This strikes me as a sunny ray of Very Good News for the Java
community (in the sense of the benefit to Java developers; one
recognizes that the reasons for Stephen's dilemma are painful):
http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/what_about_jsr_310
Money Quote 1:
"Therefore, I've decided to con
There are a number of important factors that seem to be missing from
all discussions of Computer Science (CS) courses:
1) Advocating which language to teach is pointless without first
listing the core skills you are intending the students to graduate
with. In turn, advocating the core skills is
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