D vs Java as a first programming language

[Chris R. Miller]

bearophile wrote:
> Chris R. Miller:
>> Probably a better thing for them.  If they can't deal with approaching a 
>> new and foreign concept by gently probing into it, they probably won't 
>> fare well in the rest of Computer Science as well.
> 
> From what you say you are an awful teacher :-]

Ironically not.  Just goes to show that people with poor opinions can 
still become semifunctional members of society.  ;-)

> I'm glad to have had teaches way better than you.

Hence why I don't try and teach.  I just don't think that it's a good 
idea to force a student to learn something that they might not have any 
real aptitude with.  As my old saxophone teacher used to note, there are 
two quantities in students that make success.  The first is talent, the 
other is determination.  A student with talent and little determination 
fails, but a student with little talent and all the determination in the 
world succeeds.

I suppose I over-simplified in my original statement.  There are (many) 
more variables that I would want to factor in before recommending that 
someone continue exploring other career/hobby opportunities.