Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students

hedley writes "A prior article on the damage Java does to CS education was discussed here recently. There was substantial feedback and the mailbox of one of the authors, Prof Dewar, also has been filled with mainly positive responses. In this followup to the article, Prof. Dewar clarifies his position on Java. In his view the core of the problem is universities 'dumbing down programs, hoping to make them more accessible and popular. Aspects of curriculum that are too demanding, or perceived as tedious, are downplayed in favor of simplified material that attracts a larger enrollment.'"

Comments

Re:Happy nigger day!

[Entropius]

Humans are apes.

Nice troll, though.

Re:You're deluding yourself...

[Zeinfeld]

Thanks for reading my post. I can see you clearly have a lucid understanding of what I said by the fact that you replied on a completely different topic. My point, if you'd bothered to try to comprehend it, is that the universities/colleges/etc are interested not in teaching, but in producing "coding fodder" for the IT industry.

You had a point? I thought you were just karma whoring with a contentless snark.

I do agree that Universities should teach better karma whoring technique, not just produce coding foder, it is pretty sad to see folk like yourself who are still waiting to get their +1 karma bonus after over a hundred posts.

Get rid of Cobol, Ada, SQL and FORTRAN. Students don't need 'em half as much as they need prime slashdot snarking skills.

As for TFA, when is a dupe not a dupe? When it is posted as a followup to the original with zero new content.