Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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Why suggest C++ or Java as "languages for the hobbyist"? Why not languages which are either easier to use (Visual Basic, Squeak) or more trendy (Ruby, Python)? I like Java fine, but if someone asked me for advice on what to tinker in, I wouldn't hand them my 967-page copy of "Java in a Nutshell, 4th ed." and tell them to go for it.