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Originally posted by master5001
I know of a few schools around the country that have gone to teaching java to the newbies. All biases aside, with one weeks worth of java knowledge you can make buttons, images, write files, poll the user's mouse, etc. With one weeks worth of C++ (assuming that c++ is the person's first language of course) you can do memory allocation, write small console applications, and write files. It is a good choice. [edit] that last sentence was very ambiguous, what i mean to say is: Java is a good choice[/edit]
One week of Java knowledge for the normal person=one year of Java knowledge for me. :)