> It is not outdated. [...] You're just succumbing to the misplaced belief that new means more value Sure, technically you can still teach HTML in Internet Exp

> It is not outdated. [...] You're just succumbing to the misplaced belief that new means more value Sure, technically you can still teach HTML in Internet Explorer 6 and OOP in Java 7 or something, but that has no added benefit and is actually more difficult to set up nowadays. And you can't deny that old versions are outdated when they don't even receive security updates anymore. > the only thing that you get is more complexity. What part of OOP basics got more complex in Java? And why teach Java at all if simpler OOP languages exist? Not to mention that avoiding complexity can actually be counterproductive for teaching. As an example, I got more than 5 years of Java-focused programming education and afterwards I still didn't know what a classpath is and couldn't write a single line outside an IDE because nobody wanted to expose complicated stuff to the students. Instead of forbidding students from using a newer Java version one should focus on the actually important part.