On 12/15/2010 12:06 PM, Carl Jokl wrote:
I was speaking to a student at our University today and it looks like
the introduction to programming is being moved from Java to C#.
I suppose that speaks of Java's demise in popularity as of late.
However it may also be just that at the time I was there, the person
who taught programming was very anti Microsoft. It may just be the new
person in charge is personally more in favour of the Microsoft camp.
Generally speaking, I don't see any problem if universities change from
Java to C# and vice-versa. The teaching slot for a "general purpose
industrial language" can be equally filled by any of them. In my
experience, in many cases the choice can be influenced by funding,
coming from Sun or Microsoft, in the frame of academic-industrial
cooperation. Clearly Sun had less funds for this kind of evangelism in
the past years, and this is no more a problem for Oracle. I don't know
which is the Oracle attitude about universities, though.
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