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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python (spectrum.ieee.org)
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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Java... I started with Java myself when I was a teen. It's not a good idea.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think Java is still a good language for beginners. The tooling around it is really good and it catches lots of issues at compile time.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd recommend Python or JavaScript to beginners. Also, Java is dying out right now.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I seriously don't get why Python is so popular for learners. Its a weird ass very isolated language syntactically. The libraries for it are great but still.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

JavaScript sometimes can be weird as hell. That's why I prefer Python. I don't know, for me it seemed logical from the beginning. Java definitely ain't better.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Because it dared to change the shitty syntax of bad syntax languages so humans can actually read it.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Java is dying" is what people who've never actually worked as a dev for a big company think.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

The company I work at is currently replacing all of their legacy Java shit with Go

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago

You say legacy code?

[–] FourThirteen@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Java is absolutely not dying... unfortunately. Billions of people depend on spaghetti code written by corporations every day. I think Java will be the next COBOL. It won't die and it's unfortunate.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Java is a great language. Still one of the most used languages in the world. Ditto python