On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:21:39 -0500, Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:58:38 -0500 (CDT) > Adam Maloney <adam at whee.org> wrote: > > > > The U's C++ programming class [for engineers/non-majors] used > > > Deitel & Deitel's C++ book. > > > > Interesting - I was a CSci major, but never took C++. > > Back in my day (only about 10 years ago) we did C/C++. I'm teaching > one of the beginning programming courses at Metrostate this year and > it's all in Java. Cannot say for sure if I really agree with that or > not for teaching basic programming. > > Josh I think java is a waste of time for csci. As a beginning programming course it could teach the fundamentals, but I've heard of schools wanting to switch from C++ to java for csci majors..... Java is just too slow..... I can't see it being used for much more than web applications IMHO. -Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list