From: Mike Nelson <miken700@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T23:40:44+09:00
Subject: Re: begining programmer questions

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
(Nowadays of course, all the
> younger people coming out of university seem to have learned nothing but
> Java...)

At the risk of tangenting a tangent, I've noticed this as well. I'm very
curious why this is the case. My best guess right now is that many CS
professors are very fimilar with C or C+ and Java seems a bit easier to
teach than either of them to undergrads. It's an easy step to teach Java
for them; easy for the professor to pick up and apply a lot of concepts
that they used to teach in C, since the syntax for C and Java is very
similar, and easier to teach than C in some ways.

If this is the case, then its seems like a weird reason to have a lot of 
people coming out of university coding in Java.

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