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		DeathArrow on April 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't Make Students Use Eclipse C and Pascal and even C++ have a very simple model. An address of a variable is a pointer. You can actually understand how memory is layed out on hardware and why you would want to pass references or pointers instead of copying very large data structures.

ethbro on April 12, 2020 [–]

I'd sum up my feelings on intro Java as requiring too many "except when..."s.

I understand why (now), but at the time, it just added unnecessary cognitive load on top of already learning hardware models.

C and Pascal require fewer exceptions, despite a larger base knowledge requirement.

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