"Many of her friends in their third and fourth year in Temple’s computer science department haven’t written a line of code outside of basic Java, she said."
Temple CS '08 grad here. They had us writing C, lisp, and x86 asm (simple multiple precision arithmetic) in the first year. I think she's exaggerating a bit.
Java was introduced in the third and fourth years when they started on higher level data structures and abstractions.
Yes, it is a poor article by traditional standards. It appears the writer did no research at all other than her interview with the department chair (who conveniently appears to agree with the narrative, although it's hard to say whether quotes are taken out of context)
Temple CS '08 grad here. They had us writing C, lisp, and x86 asm (simple multiple precision arithmetic) in the first year. I think she's exaggerating a bit.
Java was introduced in the third and fourth years when they started on higher level data structures and abstractions.