Reply to post: Re: Biggest problem is the name.

Stanford Uni's intro to CompSci course adopts JavaScript, bins Java

Mage Silver badge

Re: Biggest problem is the name.

Initial learning of programming doesn't need any file i/o or printing.

This could only be useful as an introduction. Other modules would need I/O on a microcontroller with no OS and designing simple schedulers etc, security, database access, networking, and desktop OS file I/O and printing. Javascript is unsuitable for those and Node,js as no place in leaning programming, it's a dubious web application enabling framework that only happens to use javascript.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon