Basic HTML version of Foils prepared September 1 99
| Increasingly, Java is the language used for important computing paradigms that support applications: object-oriented computing, event-driven computing, distributed objects, linkage to databases, visual/component computing, client/servers, networking, multimedia computing . . . |
| So Java is an important language to include at an advanced computer science level, along with other languages such as C++, that are useful to students to get jobs. |
But the good design features of Java also make it suitable for teaching basic computer science concepts: algorithms, data structures, software design, . . .
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