From: Francis Cianfrocca Date: 2006-05-15T23:51:19+09:00 Subject: Re: begining programmer questions Well, I have a somewhat different theory. Because remember five to ten years ago, when all the young people were coming out having learned Scheme and nothing else, so they were useless? I think someone told the professors they need to train people for the real world, but they responded by picking Java as the default choice. Seems like it would be nice to find a happy medium between solid training in CS fundamentals and practical knowledge. The Java training they're getting now seems to be little more than recipes. On 5/15/06, Mike Nelson wrote: > 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. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >