From my experience, CS professors like to teach in Java because it's a
"pure" object-oriented programming language, unlike C++ which is just C
with object-oriented extensions,and still allows you to use C syntax.
Prentice
On 12/3/18 8:25 PM, Lux, Jim (337K) wrote:
My daughter took the CS101 class at her liberal arts college and it
was Java.
Maybe that’s because it’s an employable skill – An enormous amount of
day to day business software development is in Java.
As an Art History major, it’s not like she needs multidimensional
arrays. Good, bombproof string manipulation for her Latin
grammar/translator project was more useful. So Fortran and C are not
big winners in that application development space. Java, Python, Basic
would all have served adequately.
Jim Lux
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*From:*Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] *On Behalf Of *Stu
Midgley
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*To:* Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov>
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*Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome
indeed... and then Java... what were people thinking?
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:06 PM Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
<beowulf@beowulf.org <mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> wrote:
Fortran was the second programming language I learned, behind
BASIC. I took Fortran classes in high school, and then was
required to take Intro to Fortran for Engineers class freshman
year of college. As a result, I took multi-dimensional arrays for
granted. Years later, I tried created a multi-dimensional array in
C. What the hell, C?
--
Dr Stuart Midgley
sdm...@gmail.com <mailto:sdm...@gmail.com>
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