AskHN: Should us youngins be taking a Java class as a first programming class?
I'll be starting with a computer engineering program this fall (curriculum: http://resources.msoe.edu/cdb/programs.php?progCode=SE2.4 ). My advisor has chosen classes for me -- and I see that one of the classes I'm taking, 'Software Development I', introduces the concepts of programming with Java.
After witnessing so many rants everywhere at just about all social bookmarking websites about the atrocities of Java (and especially nowadays, with what Oracle is doing), I find this a little bit unsettling. Should I just take it as my first programming language, or should I protest and try to find a way around it?
(Sorry, I know this isn't the forum to ask for personal advice in the manner that I am doing -- but I think the discussion that might ensue might interest the community, so that's why I'm asking).
After witnessing so many rants everywhere at just about all social bookmarking websites about the atrocities of Java (and especially nowadays, with what Oracle is doing), I find this a little bit unsettling. Should I just take it as my first programming language, or should I protest and try to find a way around it?
(Sorry, I know this isn't the forum to ask for personal advice in the manner that I am doing -- but I think the discussion that might ensue might interest the community, so that's why I'm asking).