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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by baud147258 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:40AM (#30539022)
> "I thought programming was all Java!"

If students get this preconception, I think it's more an issue how they are taught, not an issue with Java itself. I mean the first language I learned and most of my classes were in Java, but that didn't prevent me from knowing there other existing languages and learning about them.

Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by baud147258 on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:38AM (#30552940)
though, on retrospect, I can admit that Java might not be the best language to learn programming