My first two courses were in C++, and after that it was a mix of C++ and Java.

If my first course was in JavaScript I probably would've WAT, and gone into psychology.

It's funny reading the comments regarding some of Java's "bad" features like type safety, which I consider to be a strong selling point of a language.

In 101 my professor educated us as to how many holy wars there are in computer science, and that most of them boil down to treating opinion as gold. Then he told us to never get involved in them, and just do the damn job in whatever language, framework, etc... we were currently using.