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Originally Posted by Eko
I was totally heartbroken when I heard that the AP cirriculum switched to Java too. That is such a disservice to the Computer Sciences students.
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I disagree. 90% of computer science/computer engineering is about learning how to design and architect software, independent of a language. This is a primary difference between learning comp sci in high school/college versus goofing around at home and teaching yourself how to program. At home, you're likely to learn how to write code in one particular language well, but you're less likely to learn how to properly design software.
A good computer scientist/computer engineer should be able to adapt to any programming language in an extremely short amount of time.
Besides, Java and C++ are very similar anyway.