[Darvon]

You can't get a degree without being exposed to a number of lecturer's language-of-choice. I'd be shocked to find someone who had only used c++

[mhh__]

Lecturers are often fairly poor programmers, which is sort of within the point I was making. You might learn Java and C++ but you'll probably be writing one in the other no matter what you do first.

I.e. my current lecturer in C programming seemed to imply we were going to be learning about object oriented programming in plain C (specifically inheritance), which does not bode well if he didn't misspeek