You may have forgotten the amount of theory encapsulated in understanding something as simple as hello world.
Indeed, a simple servlet throws in about 5x that information. They have 3 to 4 years to get to concurrency, I don't think it needs to be covered at the beginning. On Oct 25, 7:47 am, Ruben Reusser <[email protected]> wrote: > It is amazing to me that the universities (at least the one close to our > office) does not force the students to learn all about the web while > learning how to program. Instead of a system.out.println("hello world"); it > might be a better idea to just start with a web based application first > (small servlet, printing out hello world or doing some computation, work > your way up to more interesting concepts). Starting in a web based world may > lead to better understanding of concurrency, etc. and at least the students > would not have to learn about web development once they graduate... > > Ruben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
