They should start with immutability and function composition:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html>After that,
concurrency becomes a lot less challenging!

On 25 October 2010 08:38, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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