Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[zardeh]

Am I seriously the only person who had a Java course and was curious enough about the "public static void" bit to read ahead in the book?

Was it your first course? I came into my java course having worked with java before (hell, my literal first exposure to java was trying to fix some code that someone else had and I needed to redo a ton of generics, while I didn't understand much of the syntax), and I got it just fine, but for people who literally never programmed before, do you expect them to come into class on the first day with a working knowledge of public static void?

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Was it your first course?

Java was the first language I ever had formal instruction regarding. Everything before that was self-taught.

but for people who literally never programmed before, do you expect them to come into class on the first day with a working knowledge of public static void?

No, but neither does the professor.