this one school I heard of is going to start giving Java instead of C++. A note taken from some documentation I got from the student that told me about this piece of news:
"Projects will be written in C++ until May, 2004, when the APCS examinations will be given in Java"
the school website:
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/index.cfm
I don't know...
Dont doubt it, next year the AP exam officially changes to Java.
and what is the APCS exam?
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
Eric Porterfield.
Yup, I'm doing AP Computer Science (APCS) at my school right now, and it's the last year before the change to Java.
woah, freakish.
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
Eric Porterfield.
At my school, our grade 12 programming course is Java. For our final project in that course I wrote an entire game engine using Java. *shudder*
Luckily they still have Visual C++ installed on a few machines for our programming team.
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why the hell would you change to JAVA???
Does this mean when i go to college(if) in a few months that the courses will be aiming more at java then c++?? that would suck so bad....
Well Java don't suck like this... it's a great tool, and it's a perfect OOP, even more than C++.
And it's good too, because it's 100% multi-plataform, but this causes it to be slow... ahh the VM.
Its not actually that slow. With a JIT, you can reach speeds of up to only 15% slower than native C++. Just for comparison, the bytecoded-JIT'ed .NET languages (C#, etc) are only 10% slower. I've done those tests.
Java has a lot of features, don't bash it until you have actually programmed in it. For example, in web applications, Java beats C++ however powerful it may be.
Are you kidding me? Dude, they teach Java AND C++ *plus tons of others). It's not like HS where they only offer one type of programming course.Originally posted by RoD
Does this mean when i go to college(if) in a few months that the courses will be aiming more at java then c++?? that would suck so bad....
I dont know any better :P
This discussion has came up allready. Yes APCS is going to Java. Yes, Java is making headway in CS programs. But C++, Java and C# will still be your major languages at Univ and most businesses.
And yes VB and COBOL are still around. VB is still viable and is taught at a lot of business CIS programs.
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When the Advanced Placement board made that decision, Java's popularity was at its zenith, and talk of the death of C++ was frequent. Universities like Java because of its "purer" OOP implementation and its "platform independence." Unfortunately, Java remains a proprietary programming language and platform controlled by Sun Microsystems, unlike the ISO-standardized languages C and C++.
Anyway, as long as computer science and programming concepts are taught well, the particular programming language and platform is not really that important.
