Hi guys. Wanted to ask what you think about Java. I'm starting my study now and I'll have Java as my primary languge and I'm thinking of chaning the faculty ... What you think about it?

Moved to Java forum.

Could you be alittle more specific? I'll take a guess what you want and say that I think it's a fairly straight forward and easy to learn language.

Only asking about your opinions about Java

It's not quite as functional as some other languages out there...but I think it's much more user friendly.

Take this example...





I just don't like the way C++ names its functions...it makes much more sense to call them the way in Java as well...

if ( SOME_STRING.equals(ANOTHER_STRING) )

Just makes more sense than if ( strcmp(SOME_STRING, ANOTHER_STRING) )

That's my $0.02.

This post has been edited by Locke37: 1 Oct, 2008 - 11:23 AM

Two things I hate in Java:
- VM (slooowww)
- Function names (System.out.println() - wtf )

That's the ONLY function name that I'm kinda like..."Wha?!" But it makes sense.

I don't particularly care for it, but most uni classes are in java nowadays

Uni classes? What's that?

University classes.

It depends on what are you going to program.
For writing business logic I love Java's documentation (API and tutorials) and function libraries. Also, for me the coding conventions suggested by Sun seem to be the best. So for a small performance overhead (not because of the VM, it is pretty transparent nowadays, even ARM processors implement 90% of Java instructions natively) it gives easy debugging, management, and so on.
Where low-level things are needed (for performance, access to various system resources) it is pretty much useless, that territory is for C/C++.

Most universities try to teach you a complete concept of programming, not just a programming language.
The goal is to make the student able to use any language as the language is just one tool of many.

Try to learn about architecture, patterns and algorithms to enhance the performance of your programs which is more important. That way, when you're asked to make a program in some language you never heard of before, you'll already know what it's about and you'll just have to learn a new syntax which is usually fairly simple.

In this case, as mentioned before, Java is a good place to start as it's rather user friendly.
If you plan to some day make a bigger programming project, you should take a look at UML (You'll probably find it rather boring at first but it's very useful).
I would also recommend learning C (Although it seems you already know it) as it let's you code on a lower level.