[wtracy]

"...it's really hard to learn object-oriented programming (well)."

You have no idea how desperately I wish more people understood that. I could swear that every introductory programming book produced in the last years was either written by someone who either completely forgot how hard this material was to originally master, or who was just some freak of nature who just intuitively grasped it.

Please, please, please, give your students a solid grounding in procedural (or even functional!) programming before teaching OOP. You can teach them about objects and how to use them, but please stop making people write entire classes before they have at minimum a month of coding exercises behind them! (Universities that teach CS101 in Java, I'm looking at you.)

Anyway, I strongly agree with you and reached for the upvote button, and ended up downvoting you instead. Stupid touchscreens.

[majewsky]

There, I undid your downvote with my upvote.