I love seeing when people start out teaching with Java. “OK so write ‘public’, don’t worry about why it’s too complicated for now, ok now write ‘void’, again too complicated we’ll get into that later in the semester, now on top of your enter key there’s this squiggly bracket...”https://twitter.com/zaid/status/1030714309112807424 …
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Oh, I guess for getting to “hello world” the root problem with Java is that everything has to be a class, which by itself is hard to explain and also forces dealing with what you brought up (“public” and “void”).
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I wonder from time to time how much damage this single decision must have done in terms of DISCOURAGING high schoolers to take up programming.
