when i first started university (yes im from australia), the first language we were taught was c++. This was a small uni and when i moved to a larger uni (one of the biggest in australia) i found to my dismay that java was being taught as the learning language. As everyone would know on/., java is only a subset of c++ with some fancy add-ons. I felt that i knew far more than the students at my new uni and that they should have learnt c/c++. Essentially if they learnt c++, then java can be and is very easy to pick up afterwards.
on a side note, at my old uni we did learn java after c++ and it only took one course to pick up all the fundamental issues.
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for a hour or two yesterday, me and lots of other people couldnt even connect to google while I was at university!
when i first started university (yes im from australia), the first language we were taught was c++. This was a small uni and when i moved to a larger uni (one of the biggest in australia) i found to my dismay that java was being taught as the learning language. As everyone would know on /., java is only a subset of c++ with some fancy add-ons. I felt that i knew far more than the students at my new uni and that they should have learnt c/c++. Essentially if they learnt c++, then java can be and is very easy to pick up afterwards.
on a side note, at my old uni we did learn java after c++ and it only took one course to pick up all the fundamental issues.