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[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Andrew Price wrote:

> http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/09/22/bluej-considered-harmful/
>
> Pretty much sums it up.

Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything that article says.

This is very familiar: "Today I helped a group of students who were 
completely mystified by the mysterious black box of cmd.exe. I swear I 
have never seen anyone so completely stumped by a command prompt."

And I 100% agree with this: "We should be training young hackers, and 
encourage them to get down and dirty and messing around with the guts of 
their OS and programming environment. Instead, we are churning out batches 
of GUI clickers." - it's the "VB problem" all over again.

Anyway, I've long thought that teaching Java as an introduction to 
programming is a bad idea.  It just isn't a suitable language to teach 
beginners with IMHO.

  - Steve
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