[College] That's it ... they hate us ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

And, in a cunning ploy to guarantee that we don't have social lives in January or February, the first Object Oriented Programming course of next year is not only in Eiffel, which will be a completely new language to almost all of us, but will also be spread out in five weekly installments, which must be handed in week by week to receive any feedback - which, it being a new language to us, we might possibly need. Ho-hum. So, after my birthday, I might not be seen all that much until the end of February. Mutter.

Comments

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Apparently, one of my lecturers. They claim that they want to use it so as to demonstrate some pure Object Oriented concepts that Java doesn't properly implement. Once we've done this one Eiffel-only exercise, the others can be done in Java or Eiffel - our choice. In fact, the last one can be Java, Eiffel, or C#, once they've taught us that!

[aimlessdesire.livejournal.com]

If you get the chance to do c# do it. Especially if you want a programming job, because there's so many jobs in C# these days. If you know Java it won't be that hard to learn either.

TBH it doesn't really matter what language you learn if they teach you good programming practices as those can be easily taken from one language to another. Too many people just hack at code until it works and have no idea how to do things properly. I got taught programming in Modula 2 at uni because they refused to teach us C because it was too easy to do things badly in C!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

C# and Java are both part of the OOP course - the idea is that they're teaching us OO concepts, using those languages as examples because they're useful - roughly the same reason why we're learning SQL with Oracle ... We had C++ last year, to try to inculcate the basics of programming. Doesn't mean I'm any good at it, mind ...