Got to "But when you learn Java, there aren't any powerful language features you can use to solve many problems. Instead, you spend your time learning a body of

Got to "But when you learn Java, there aren't any powerful language features you can use to solve many problems. Instead, you spend your time learning a body of technique for solving problems in the language. Java has hashes, but if you are aware of them at all, they are just another piece of the immense Collections library, lost among the many other sorts of collections, and you have no particular reason to know about them or think about them." and then I stopped. If you have to be taught about dictionaries (1), you're a crappy programmer anyway. (1) I will accept the denomination "map" also, but they are not called "hashes" damnit.