The College Board change to Java is not a recent development. The last year that CB tested AP CompSci in C++ was when I was a freshman in high school (circa 20

The College Board change to Java is not a recent development. The last year that CB tested AP CompSci in C++ was when I was a freshman in high school (circa 2002-2003). Since then, they have used Java as the teaching language. As someone who went to school during the transition period, it was weird to take intro to programming in C++, then swap to Java for AP-level work, but at the same time, the change wasn't that great since the syntax is quite similar. When I was in high school, the explanation for the change was always along the lines of "Java is cross-platform and going to be the industry-standard by the time you come out of college." Now as a senior in college, I wonder if that statement is true these days.