@morbiuswilters said:
@Sarek said:
At the end of the second semester we had a very quick introduction to Java (2 days).Seems reasonable to me. Java is just Pascal with some "syntactic sugar". Like, you have wrap all of your Pascal code in a "class" or something. I guess the textbook publishers just wanted to find a way to sell new editions so they invented all these useless keywords.
Well, shouldn't Object Pascal (aka Delphi) be the successor of Pascal? I associate Java's syntax with C, but that may be because I didn't really pay that much attention to Pascal :-P
We "learned" Java not from a textbook but really by a quick-n-dirty introduction because we were going to visit a partner university and our professor wanted us to "look good" in front of the other students (and their professors)
We were also not forced into buying our profs book, instead he printed it out for each of us (200 pages, duplex, 30 students)