It was my experience that you could learn these things later if you wanted to. Most students don't need that information, as many of them will be using the API anyway. If you want to learn the additional information they still offer classes that teach it.
There are a lot of cool electives in CS. I am pretty sure this was one of the ones I could take. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT - prog languages > > At 01:53 PM 9/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > > Moving into Java, the students no longer have to create a Stack ADT, > >they > > >merely have to create an instance of the stack class and all the > >methods > > >are already there. > > > >That's surprising, I would have thought that they make the students > >create the structures from scratch and then afterwards point them to the > >equivalents in the API. > > I would too. I think the conversation at the time was more based around > the fact that they didn't have to, since it was all already "Built in". > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists

