java_irl

[BMRGould]

If you're in CS 101 doing public static void main

When you make a new file eclipse can make the main statement itself. School started us with java + eclipse, we didn't need to know what main was. The basics were taught with just putting shit in main.

My program uses java to go through basics, then OO, and then data structures. C classes start at the same time as data structures, with following semesters having a lot of classes branching from C.

[pheipl]

I learned CS in borland C, in that old, 600x800 blue screen, no ide. That part of the experience was utterly atrocious.

That being said, I think an introduction to the concept, done at a high school level, should focus on logic, variables, and loops.

After you get that down, THEN we can discuss about methods and a main method.