It makes learning C++ easier. The students that cannot understand VB or Java will be weeded out and perhaps change majors. They will not understand C++ if they cannot understand VB or Java. The first programming language I learned was BASIC Basic and that made it easy to move on to Pascal. Then I was out of programming for awhile and when I went back to school, I started with C++ and could understand it because of previous programming experience. I saw a lot of fellow students asking me for help and/or dropping out or failing. I think they would have done better if they had started with VB or Java; preferably VB.
The title of this thread is misleading as it makes you think that professors think the language of Java is bad. I think all colleges/universities/etc. should recommend starting with VB and then Java, then C++, then x86 Assembly. All those languages should be taught and that order would be recommended by me. They all have their uses and they are all necessary to develop a good computer scientist. Yes assembly too. Assembly is not as difficult as many think. It's just a little tedious and it teaches students more about how computers work at a low level and translates into better programming practices and more skills.
Math is for another debate, but it important too for advanced programming applications and to think logically and analytically.
I love my Zune. I bought it when it came out and I use it everyday and it's great. The interface is extremely easy to use. The bigger screen is nice for watching videos. I haven't had any problems with it. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's great media player IMO.
What I would like to know is how hard it is to learn and comprehend Intel x86 Assembly language compared to C++ Data Structures? I have to take a couple Assembly language classes soon and I will be taking Calc and Calc2 at the same time! I am taking C++ Data Structures now and damn it is fairly difficult.
thanks
http://www.fuckedupcountry.com/campaign_against_ma n-made_global_warming_science.html
Excerpt
"The Campaign against Man-Made Global Warming Science
Global warming is the most important long-term problem the world
faces. If nothing is done to reverse it, the world and all life,
including human civilization, will be obliterated by it. More
tornadoes, powerful hurricanes, new diseases, intolerable
temperatures, and widespread flooding are just some of the
consequences. World maps will have to be redrawn. Coastal cities will
be lost to rising tides, just like the fate of Atlantis. Humans are
responsible for global warming and humans can stop it, if they want
to. Unfortunately, the truth is inconvenient. Stopping global warming
will require a lot of money and a lot of human effort. Putting a man
on the moon is trivial compared to the effort required to stop the
catastrophe that is sure to come from global warming. Certain
governmental forces and industries do not want to spend the required
money and resources to solve this problem. The fossil fuel industry
and the Bush administration it influences are behind a campaign of
disinformation and censorship that denies the consensus that global
warming is a man-made problem. "
Excerpt
"The Bush administration is actively involved in censoring climate-
change science to make global warming look like it is a cyclical
process and not as severe as it really is. "As a government scientist,
James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White
House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway
(Rewriting). James Hansen is one of the foremost authority figures on
global warming. He works for NASA and he says the Bush administration
is censoring what he has to say about global warming and climate-
change (Rewriting). "In my more than three decades in the government
I've never witnessed such restrictions on the ability of scientists to
communicate with the public," says Hansen (Rewriting)."
Excerpt
"While the Bush administration is censoring global warming scientists,
the fossil fuel industry is actively brainwashing people into thinking
that global warming is part of a natural cycle and that it is not a
severe problem. Coal is one of the fossil fuels that, when burned,
emits the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. One example of the
disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry involves a
Colorado electric cooperative, Intermountain Rural Electric
Association, which paid sums of $100,000 each to several university
academics and environmental scientists (Making Money).
Another example of the bribery includes a popular global warming
skeptic, Dr. Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute. Dr. Michaels has
admitted to taking money from the fossil fuel industry. The coal and
oil industry has paid him approximately $115,000 over a period of four
years (ExxonSecrets.org). He is the author of a book, titled Meltdown:
The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists,
Politicians, and the Media. His book states that global warming is
indeed man-made, but the magnitude of it is way overblown.
The oil giant, ExxonMobil, is one of the main antagonists against man-
made global warming science. They have a lot of money to lose if
governments make greenhouse emission caps mandatory and if people and
governments switch to alternative fuels. ExxonMobil is one of the
world's largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2004, the
operations of the company alone pumped 138 million metric tons of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In 2005, the levels of carbon
dioxide produced by ExxonMobil company operations were about the same
as 2004. The amount of carbon dioxide produced by ExxonMobil company
operations pales in comparison to the carbon dioxide produced by the
use of the company's products: gasoline, heating oil, kerosene, diesel
products, aviation fuels and heavy fuels. In 2005, the end use of
ExxonMobil's products produced 1,047 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide (Smoke, Mirrors). "If it was a country, ExxonMobil would rank
sixth in emissions" (Smoke, Mirrors). "
It is only for the idea, but I think you are generally right on. There should be more money involved and multiple prizes. How about a prize just for some good effort by people trying to think up solutions? $1.2 trillion or whatever was spent on Iraq, could do a lot to fight global warming. The main problem lies with the people in power. The President of The United States and Vice President have ties to the fossil fuel industry. That's the biggest problem....
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It makes learning C++ easier. The students that cannot understand VB or Java will be weeded out and perhaps change majors. They will not understand C++ if they cannot understand VB or Java. The first programming language I learned was BASIC Basic and that made it easy to move on to Pascal. Then I was out of programming for awhile and when I went back to school, I started with C++ and could understand it because of previous programming experience. I saw a lot of fellow students asking me for help and/or dropping out or failing. I think they would have done better if they had started with VB or Java; preferably VB. The title of this thread is misleading as it makes you think that professors think the language of Java is bad. I think all colleges/universities/etc. should recommend starting with VB and then Java, then C++, then x86 Assembly. All those languages should be taught and that order would be recommended by me. They all have their uses and they are all necessary to develop a good computer scientist. Yes assembly too. Assembly is not as difficult as many think. It's just a little tedious and it teaches students more about how computers work at a low level and translates into better programming practices and more skills. Math is for another debate, but it important too for advanced programming applications and to think logically and analytically.
I like that idea good one ;)
I love my Zune. I bought it when it came out and I use it everyday and it's great. The interface is extremely easy to use. The bigger screen is nice for watching videos. I haven't had any problems with it. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's great media player IMO.
What I would like to know is how hard it is to learn and comprehend Intel x86 Assembly language compared to C++ Data Structures? I have to take a couple Assembly language classes soon and I will be taking Calc and Calc2 at the same time! I am taking C++ Data Structures now and damn it is fairly difficult. thanks
http://www.fuckedupcountry.com/campaign_against_ma n-made_global_warming_science.html
Excerpt
"The Campaign against Man-Made Global Warming Science
Global warming is the most important long-term problem the world
faces. If nothing is done to reverse it, the world and all life,
including human civilization, will be obliterated by it. More
tornadoes, powerful hurricanes, new diseases, intolerable
temperatures, and widespread flooding are just some of the
consequences. World maps will have to be redrawn. Coastal cities will
be lost to rising tides, just like the fate of Atlantis. Humans are
responsible for global warming and humans can stop it, if they want
to. Unfortunately, the truth is inconvenient. Stopping global warming
will require a lot of money and a lot of human effort. Putting a man
on the moon is trivial compared to the effort required to stop the
catastrophe that is sure to come from global warming. Certain
governmental forces and industries do not want to spend the required
money and resources to solve this problem. The fossil fuel industry
and the Bush administration it influences are behind a campaign of
disinformation and censorship that denies the consensus that global
warming is a man-made problem. "
Excerpt
"The Bush administration is actively involved in censoring climate-
change science to make global warming look like it is a cyclical
process and not as severe as it really is. "As a government scientist,
James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White
House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway
(Rewriting). James Hansen is one of the foremost authority figures on
global warming. He works for NASA and he says the Bush administration
is censoring what he has to say about global warming and climate-
change (Rewriting). "In my more than three decades in the government
I've never witnessed such restrictions on the ability of scientists to
communicate with the public," says Hansen (Rewriting)."
Excerpt
"While the Bush administration is censoring global warming scientists,
the fossil fuel industry is actively brainwashing people into thinking
that global warming is part of a natural cycle and that it is not a
severe problem. Coal is one of the fossil fuels that, when burned,
emits the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. One example of the
disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry involves a
Colorado electric cooperative, Intermountain Rural Electric
Association, which paid sums of $100,000 each to several university
academics and environmental scientists (Making Money).
Another example of the bribery includes a popular global warming
skeptic, Dr. Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute. Dr. Michaels has
admitted to taking money from the fossil fuel industry. The coal and
oil industry has paid him approximately $115,000 over a period of four
years (ExxonSecrets.org). He is the author of a book, titled Meltdown:
The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists,
Politicians, and the Media. His book states that global warming is
indeed man-made, but the magnitude of it is way overblown.
The oil giant, ExxonMobil, is one of the main antagonists against man-
made global warming science. They have a lot of money to lose if
governments make greenhouse emission caps mandatory and if people and
governments switch to alternative fuels. ExxonMobil is one of the
world's largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2004, the
operations of the company alone pumped 138 million metric tons of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In 2005, the levels of carbon
dioxide produced by ExxonMobil company operations were about the same
as 2004. The amount of carbon dioxide produced by ExxonMobil company
operations pales in comparison to the carbon dioxide produced by the
use of the company's products: gasoline, heating oil, kerosene, diesel
products, aviation fuels and heavy fuels. In 2005, the end use of
ExxonMobil's products produced 1,047 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide (Smoke, Mirrors). "If it was a country, ExxonMobil would rank
sixth in emissions" (Smoke, Mirrors). "
It is only for the idea, but I think you are generally right on. There should be more money involved and multiple prizes. How about a prize just for some good effort by people trying to think up solutions? $1.2 trillion or whatever was spent on Iraq, could do a lot to fight global warming. The main problem lies with the people in power. The President of The United States and Vice President have ties to the fossil fuel industry. That's the biggest problem....