Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: hash map Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:05:32 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <9a86c6fb-ae40-4acd-902f-afff0ab60fd6@googlegroups.com> <208075f0-0022-4996-b2b7-a3b90f6c85a6@googlegroups.com> <25389b66-b30f-4076-8f8e-4bfeb91dbc6f@googlegroups.com> <8a53e56c-5877-4c31-976f-5802f926f44a@googlegroups.com> <1bcffbc0-a529-4185-87f2-8e1d66bf319d@googlegroups.com> <92da5574-f874-49a4-9a70-492a154f166e@googlegroups.com> <05ce1a1e-7040-4ba9-b3c2-eedf3b89646f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36490 On 4/18/2017 10:21 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Eric Douglas writes: >> On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 8:22:58 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> If one was to learn a simpler procedural language before going >>> for a more complex object oriented language, then I would suggest >>> Pascal not C. >> I would suggest BASIC. That's what we learned in 8th grade. > > I teach object-oriented languages like C++, Java, C#, and > Python. > > The way I do this, is to teach gradually incrementing > sub-languages. That is another way. > Programs look like > > public final class Main > { public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args ) > { java.lang.System.out.println > ( 1+2*3 ); }} But why not teach them to write Java that looks like Java!?!? Arne