That's how I felt when I was taught Java in CS 1-3. We used Emacs in the first quarter, then switched to Eclipse in the second. I found that Eclipse obfuscated

That's how I felt when I was taught Java in CS 1-3. We used Emacs in the first quarter, then switched to Eclipse in the second. I found that Eclipse obfuscated the process--I was never really sure where files were and what was running--so I switched back to Emacs. As for the language itself, everybody is always forgetting that languages aren't "imperative, functional, or object-oriented", they're imperative or functional, with the option to apply object orientation on top of them. It seems to me that many people put the cart before the horse, so concerned that we understand the concepts of classes and inheritance that they brush over the important stuff: the functions and the data.