Subj : Re: still working in java
To   : Nightfox
From : Deavmi
Date : Thu Jun 22 2017 02:28 pm

On 2017-06-16 11:17 PM, Nightfox wrote:
>    Re: Re: still working in java
>    By: Deavmi to Vk3jed on Fri Jun 16 2017 10:40 am
> 
>   De> Yeah. With Java you learn OOP and a syntax that is used in a lot of
>   De> languages. Plus you can then (like what I am fgoing to do) move onto
>   De> somrthing natively compiled like D from Java and then from there learn
>   De> that and work my way down to C and C__ :).
> 
> I think Java is a decent language..  I learned C++ before Java, so I still tend
> to feel like Java is lacking in some ways (Java doesn't have multiple
> inheritance or direct ways of freeing memory, for instance).  Some years ago, I
> saw that colleges were teaching Java as a first language for a while and then
> went back to teaching C/C++ as a first language.
> 
> Nightfox
> 
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I think you should either teach them C,C++ or Java as the first language 
but don't go to high-level or "easy" like Python (in some cases the 
Python system is confusing too but yeah - the C,C++ and Java are solid 
learning points for a new comer - like me).
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