I was royally screwed when my college changed major language from Modular-3 to Java in my junior year.

They were so different in the beginning, I spent weeks trying to figure out this OOP principle.

Please give non-freshman students heads up before making such drastic changes on what you teach...

I believe what they teach in college should be about algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

So IMO the change of language shouldn't have that much impact... I mean, at the end of the course, you should be able to program in any high level language that suits the problem.

@kong it was just that I had to take a 300 level Java classes from the get go after they switched. Not only did I had to catch up with OOP (professor did not allow non OOP solutions), I had to learn about awt and swing. I probably shoulda stuck with intro courses but I was behind in credits after switching major from electrical engineering to comp sci. Learning a new language was already tough enough...

@dance2die Aw... If they are including GUI in the course then I can feel your pain 😥

In my college they switched from C to Java but we wrote only console applications :/