Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Lamb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Recommended books to learn Java Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:34:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <506a2c28$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 02:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7f42270a997e580902d19031af10867c"; logging-data="23458"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/0VMxnu9pCOz5n/OnGZaaV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <506a2c28$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:su0ZEX4Ro1Yc8zWNUlfc2m5ChIE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19032 On 01/10/2012 7:49 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 10/1/2012 12:28 PM, Dan Kalish wrote: >> What languages are taught in beginning Computer Science courses? >> There's no consensus on that but Java, C++ and Python are >> candidates. > > I would expect Java and C# to be the most used languages > in CS courses today. We (Queen's U, Kingston, Ontario) start with 1 semester of Python then one of Java and generally use Java after that (with C in one semester in 2nd year). I've heard rumours that Python has become common at many universities for a first language, but don't know of any surveys that would support that.