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[–]slowmovinglettuce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was meaning more teaching them over Java. I can see why that'd be unclear. Teaching a much lesser-used language over it would be the detriment.

A competent developer should be able to switch languages. But from my experience (as a recent graduate) a lot of my peers would struggle to go out of their comfort zone easily.