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Re:All those people with cheap Android smartphones have fina... by Zigurd on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:21PM (#6209442)
What you say about college students is probably true now, but that has yet to have an impact on the wider pool of developers. Since college Java classes often start with interactive applications, stepping into Android after a bit of AWT is natural. I predict college Java courses will soon enough acknowledge that Android is interactive Java and start with Android.
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Re:All those people with cheap Android smartphones have fina... by argonaut on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @04:30AM (#6210455)
Not really. Java has been a fairly standard educational language of choice for a loooong time. Well over a decade in the US educational/college system (reaching back to before 2000).
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