March 2011
1 post
On the teaching of programming
Thanks to my friend Peter Boothe, I found a blog post urging me (and anyone who read it) to make a pledge that they wouldn’t teach Java at the college freshman level or earlier.
Intrigued as to why java was singled out (but not say, C++), I continued reading. The author makes a great point:
Here’s a common error — it’s a faulty method declaration.
public void foo();
{
//...