[eighthnate]

It isn't flame bait. It was the reason our Dean gave for switching from C to Java. The thinking was that the learning curve for C was too high and the Math/Computer Science wanted to attract more humanities majors to take CS classes.

Introduction to Programming became a requirement and the drop-out/failure rate for non-CS major students was excessively high so the Dean thought teaching the classes in java rather than c would help out those who were new to programming and help them pass these "newly required" classes.