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 > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
