Are they taking your course "exclusively" to learn Java, or to code? Limit the Java curriculum if it's the latter.
Teach on 8. Give some bonus exercise/home-work on newer versions for the truly interested. Then teach them some other power-house languages to compensate. There's a healthy handful.
I absolutely hated Java during my college days, yet I'm doing perfectly fine as a professional software developer. I just don't look at Java-centric jobs. If someday that's all I can get a job in, then I'll hunker down and learn it well enough to land one. The most important thing you can teach to your students is not any specific language but the fundamentals they will need to learn it. The lower-level the language is, the better.
*Disclaimer: I'm certainly not a teacher, but I've been tutoring students that are going through the same course as I did, every year since I've graduated; and this is what seems to make it click for most of them. Obviously, some of them are just not cut out for programming.
Why should my family and friends be affected by something so ridiculously stupid coming out of MY mouth? You want to pass law for this? You're no better than the people you're trying to get into that congo line first.
Please. I've lost count of all the assholes in BMWs, Audis, etc driving past me like I'm at a full-stop, despite driving at exactly the highway speed limit of 110 km/h. Set up cameras and punish these "I'm too important for laws to apply to me today." folks.
Crosswalks have countdown timers which, generally, once done will make the light turn yellow. This is reliable enough that I'm noticing a lot of people race through according to the time left on those.
I should stop writing there before my blood pressure rises too much, though.
The issue is that you're caught in that trap to begin with. In the world we need to transition into, you shouldn't have to worry about spending 6 months writing a flop. It shouldn't matter.
Eliminate the need for food and shelter, then let people do what they want. With rules, obviously. We can go a long way by guaranteeing the people quality food on a daily basis. We're dumping so many resources on useless shit.
Because if you do, you create artificial need for something that doesn't exist. Then lo-and-behold, someone comes along with grants and actually makes this "job" into a reality to appease all the idiots who indebted themselves for a useless degree.
Universities should teach you how to learn; so that YOU can go out and create these "jobs that don't exist yet" because you're smart enough to realize there's a need for X by doing Y.
We're sacrificing perfectly good/tested functionality because the wording used to code said functionality is offensive to some. Yeah, some people blow this out of proportion, but it is what it is. A blatant exercise in power for nothing more than satisfying a few gits. (Oh wait, that's offensive too! There's a popular tool that goes by that name though... what do?)
You're right though, anyone complaining about this is a snowflake and should go dry their tears./s Pathetic.
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... all the telephone lines will be tied up by robots talking with robots. Nobody will be able to make actual calls.
... to meet expectations. After a while, it either hits you that it's just not worth it; and you choose what to do from there. Or you burnout trying.
That's quite the generalization old man.
Don't most cash registers *tell* you the exact change too?
Fuck people are dim.
Are they taking your course "exclusively" to learn Java, or to code? Limit the Java curriculum if it's the latter.
Teach on 8. Give some bonus exercise/home-work on newer versions for the truly interested.
Then teach them some other power-house languages to compensate. There's a healthy handful.
I absolutely hated Java during my college days, yet I'm doing perfectly fine as a professional software developer. I just don't look at Java-centric jobs. If someday that's all I can get a job in, then I'll hunker down and learn it well enough to land one. The most important thing you can teach to your students is not any specific language but the fundamentals they will need to learn it. The lower-level the language is, the better.
*Disclaimer: I'm certainly not a teacher, but I've been tutoring students that are going through the same course as I did, every year since I've graduated; and this is what seems to make it click for most of them. Obviously, some of them are just not cut out for programming.
Depends what you use it for.
Nobody honestly cares what kind of porn you watch.
Those in power know this, and they do everything they can to keep us divided.
It's plain to see, too.
Why should my family and friends be affected by something so ridiculously stupid coming out of MY mouth?
You want to pass law for this? You're no better than the people you're trying to get into that congo line first.
Because you don't need to be either of these two to understand the basics of "AI"
The important difference is that they'll teach "anybody".
If you want to learn it, they'll teach it to you.
That's how education should work, really. Fuck the tuition.
Who ever said competition was a good thing?
Greedy fucks.
If a headshot doesn't kill, it's a shitty FPS game.
speeders = the poors.
Please. I've lost count of all the assholes in BMWs, Audis, etc driving past me like I'm at a full-stop, despite driving at exactly the highway speed limit of 110 km/h.
Set up cameras and punish these "I'm too important for laws to apply to me today." folks.
"The orange light that follows will soon proclaim itself a God."
A comment about cheese on an article about cheese is moderated "Offtopic"?
Fucking hell. What kind of kids are running this show nowadays?
Mozzarella you talkin' 'bout?
It's not an unreasonable assumption to have.
There are some things, if I can't compile it myself, I'd rather just not have.
Is that this is the second duplicated article posted on THE FRONT PAGE today.
Please, someone tell me msmash isn't paid to do his/her job.
That's what people around here do.
Crosswalks have countdown timers which, generally, once done will make the light turn yellow. This is reliable enough that I'm noticing a lot of people race through according to the time left on those.
I should stop writing there before my blood pressure rises too much, though.
On the same page. Like 4 articles from eachother.
Shitty editors.
The issue is that you're caught in that trap to begin with.
In the world we need to transition into, you shouldn't have to worry about spending 6 months writing a flop. It shouldn't matter.
Eliminate the need for food and shelter, then let people do what they want. With rules, obviously.
We can go a long way by guaranteeing the people quality food on a daily basis. We're dumping so many resources on useless shit.
Because if you do, you create artificial need for something that doesn't exist. Then lo-and-behold, someone comes along with grants and actually makes this "job" into a reality to appease all the idiots who indebted themselves for a useless degree.
Universities should teach you how to learn; so that YOU can go out and create these "jobs that don't exist yet" because you're smart enough to realize there's a need for X by doing Y.
Everybody meddles now. So they needed something new.
We're sacrificing perfectly good/tested functionality because the wording used to code said functionality is offensive to some.
Yeah, some people blow this out of proportion, but it is what it is. A blatant exercise in power for nothing more than satisfying a few gits. (Oh wait, that's offensive too! There's a popular tool that goes by that name though... what do?)
You're right though, anyone complaining about this is a snowflake and should go dry their tears. /s
Pathetic.
What's worse. What you did there would land you in a police car in some places.
Some people just suck. Fuck 'em.