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> Oracle influenced / bought academia into teaching Java for a generation

I think you probably mean Sun? Or maybe that Oracle continued what Sun started.




Nah man, Oracle… here is a personal story. I was teaching at a Uni, introductory programming course. Dean hits me up and asks if I can teach introduction to web development as then current professor was going on maternity leave. I was like “heck yea, that sounds like fun.”

before the first class I get an email from one student asking if they must purchase the book for the class since it $275 (this is years ago) and I was taken aback, what kind of book costs $275 - even for a college textbook that was nuts. I told him to not purchase it until we meet for the first class. I go to the office and see my copy of the book, it is programming the web with oracle forms from oracle press!!!! I talked to Dean and he was like “yea, that is what we need to teach!” needless to say that, none of the kids bought the book, and I did NOT teach oracle forms, and I was never given that class again :)


That is wild


Thanks, I had unconsciously guessed Oracle, based on Dijkstra’s mention of Java’s expensive promotional campaign.

Sun and Oracle were strategically aligned at the time, so it could have been either or both.




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