On 15 December 2010 11:38, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > I'm expecting to see SQL and Groovy at the top of most syllabi in the not-too-distant future :) -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [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.
