Douglas Knapp wrote:I'm new to Java and want to know if it's still a profitable avenue of study, or if I should do as he suggests here...
As with the others, I'd certainly say it's a profitable avenue of study; but not just monetarily.
1. Learning Java
well will teach you all sorts of concepts that will serve you in many other areas: Object Orientation,
loose coupling, and code re-use.
2. There are several "niche" areas, such as Android, where you can establish yourself as a valuable commodity.
3. Learning it will teach you some stuff about the JVM, which also supports several other languages.
4. Unlike many other languages/systems which
claim platform-independence, Java+JVM really delivers it; so unless what you're doing is highly specialized, you really can write a Java program once and run it on virtually any major OS.
I've been in the biz for more than 35 years now and Java is my 6th major language - along with a couple of "glorious failures" that never really took off, and a few scripting languages - so don't imagine, if you're around in 10 years time, that Java will be the
only language you know.
Winston