Don’t even write Java like it’s Java! Discussing curriculum and textbooks for a Java class today, someone recommended a book that was most recently updated for

Don’t even write Java like it’s Java! Discussing curriculum and textbooks for a Java class today, someone recommended a book that was most recently updated for Java 7. When I pointed that out, the response was: “The level we teach at, the new Java features won’t make much of a difference.” Java is a culture just as much as a language, and the culture is stuck somewhere in the past in a lot of places, especially in education.