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Should One Learn Java?

Java jobs easy to find; skills hard to come by

Training good programmers could prove to be Java's Achilles' heel

By Christie Vincent, ITworld.com

Summary
Analysts predict that demand for Java programmers will continue to grow at an impressive rate, led by Java's cross-platform and productivity features. Java, however, may be a victim of its own success as training bottlenecks raise costs and lower quality.

My take away soundbites:

""Java's background contains a lot of features from C and C++. Therefore, it's easier for C developers than Visual Basic developers to learn it," he said.

In fact, Feiman's research at Gartner indicates that C++ programmers are more likely to succeed in learning the new language, and they do so more quickly."

"Gartner's Feiman pointed out that trainers might have more ready success teaching some developers to be casual Java developers rather than professional Java developers. Learning object-oriented design and analysis, Web architecture, and application server design -- not just the Java language syntax -- takes more time, he said."

The rest of the story:

here.

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