I for one, almost have no creativity at all. |
I disagree. You seem to have the right kind of lopsided wit to do well in programming. (Join us..... it's...
bliiissss.) XD
isn't Java the most frequently taught language in college Computer Science nowadays, at least in the US? |
I doubt it, but I don't have any numbers to back that up.
What you are taught, unfortunately, depends quite heavily upon where you school. A high-level university will not focus on any one particular language --it will, in fact, expose you to quite a few.
Technical schools, on the other hand.... they are (IMNSHO) an almost complete waste of money.
Java tends to get a lot of focus because it, until very recently, was the new 'perfect' panacea to fix all programming woes. As much as us RU folks are supposed to worship James Gosling, I still think some pretty awful stuff about Java's design.
In school, I studied C, C++, MIPS assembly and other simple Motorola chip machine languages, Pascal, a quick pass at FORTRAN and COBOL, Scheme, Haskell, Java, Python, and a few toys we invented for learning purposes. Along the way the good apples will also pick up some other interesting things, like Tcl/Tk, PHP, WShell, LISP, etc, plus some environments like Xlib.
The bad seed spend their days complaining that it isn't all Java. So not only do they miss the point, they miss the learning too...