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Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve
I usually recommend to teams that they use the language that is most familiar to their programming mentor.
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I'm not sure I agree with that statement. I consider myself as having failed the team this year by insisting on using what I know best (LabView). We had a couple of top-notch Java programmer students who lost interest because of my unwillingness to adapt. As a result I wound up doing all of the programming.
It seems to me that the mentors need to focus on whatever inspires the students and step back and let them go at it with occasional guidance when they go off on an unproductive tangent.
In the meantime. It's back to the Java tutorial for me.
My $.02