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

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