Slashdot Article
Original Professor Article - Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
This article can be looked on in two (2) ways...one either these are just 2 old fuddy duddy professors that don't want to move with the times
or
2. They really do have a point.
I believe it's really the second point.
It seems that there exists some Universities that start programmers off on Java. Now, I'm not a programmer BUT to have started programming with Java would really limit my abilities to learn other things. Worse, it limits your ability to spread your wings.
At Utech - even before specialising, you learn
pseudocode...the most important skill a programmer
MUST have.
Then you learn a little assembly language, then C and C++, then that language that expert systems use (don't remember the name of it), then Java.
That progression to me has allowed me to be able to tackle programming tasks without being a programmer. My understanding of C and C++ has allowed other programming language to just be....easy
I'm on the side of the professors.