Small Talk was real popular in the mid latish 90s.
Though I have never used it, I do seem to remember it was highly thaught of as a OOP languane at the time. Im a bit confused why they are insisting on teaching fairly useless languanges by todays standards. Sounds like they developed there CS classes in 1995 or 1996 and have not changed them to keep pace with the real world. :(
JAVA is kind of the new kid on the block and a University not teaching that is sort of excusable, but surely they could have gone with something a bit more 1999+ than small talk and JavaScript.
Not using C# I wonder how it is as a cross platform non-MicroSoft language. Given windows will someday no longer be a issue, I would not want to get trapped in a deadend language. Granted I too beleive that Windows has another 5 to 10 years on it. But as consoles continue to destroy the home PC game market in the comming years, Microsoft will not be the only Major OS to write for. *shrug*
Though I have never used it, I do seem to remember it was highly thaught of as a OOP languane at the time. Im a bit confused why they are insisting on teaching fairly useless languanges by todays standards. Sounds like they developed there CS classes in 1995 or 1996 and have not changed them to keep pace with the real world. :(
JAVA is kind of the new kid on the block and a University not teaching that is sort of excusable, but surely they could have gone with something a bit more 1999+ than small talk and JavaScript.
Not using C# I wonder how it is as a cross platform non-MicroSoft language. Given windows will someday no longer be a issue, I would not want to get trapped in a deadend language. Granted I too beleive that Windows has another 5 to 10 years on it. But as consoles continue to destroy the home PC game market in the comming years, Microsoft will not be the only Major OS to write for. *shrug*