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:"Core stack"?

[guruevi]

Never heard of a stack? Man, programming has come a long way since programming a TRS-80 with assembler. Core stack usually is referred to as doing a core dump stack trace. A core stack is how the program looks in memory up to a certain point (by design (breakpoint) or crash) and then you can output that and review it.

I've heard of that

[Weaselmancer]

And yet, interestingly, an OS has been written in Lisp.

Yeah, I've heard of it. Isn't it called Emacs?

Ba dump bump! Thanks, I'll be here all night. Try the veal.