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Does anyone else think it's a travesty that the AP Computer Science curriculum is taught in Java? Java was my first programming language and I've spent the past 8 years trying to unlearn most of it

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Java's not too bad for educational purposes; at least it has a rigid type system and checked exceptions, both of which makes it harder to ignorantly slam some code together and nugde it until it works.

"ignorantly slam some code together and nugde it until it works"

haha pretty sure I still do that most of the time...followed by rewriting everything and calling that "refactoring"

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