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On 4/23/2016 8:19 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> The reason you weren't taught beyond class inheritance is because Java
> implements organization only through a class hierarchy. Whole
> generations of Java programmers think that program organization is
> through classes (a static main method means your code is procedural, by
> the way).
I never wanted to learn Java in the first place. My community college 
couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license, which local 
employers required to learn C/C++ in MS Visual Studio, and all flavors 
of Java got taught for the programming classes instead. I wanted to 
learn C/C++. I even wanted to learn assembly language, but I was the 
only student who showed up for the class and it got cancelled.

Of course, it probably doesn't help that I got a job in help desk 
support after I graduated with A.S. degree in Java and never programmed 
professionally. Thinking like a programmer helped me resolved many IT 
problems over the last 12 years. My current job in computer security 
requires tinkering with PowerShell scripts as Python is strictly 
prohibited in this Windows shop. I have made Python my main programming 
language at home.

Thank you,

Chris R.