For the course, and for learning a useful skill, start coding in Java. Java is the third programming language I learned strictly, before it are Pascal and C. There is more easy that when you have used a programming language skilled to study another, because the ideas are the same, only the method to get the result are different. The last words may be wrong, because Java is an OO(Object Oriented) language, which is different to the Process-Oriented language likes Pascal/C, and I said I learned C only as I didn’t know the ideas of OO in C++.

In Java, everything is long, the name of class, function, variable, too long to type… I love C, I love VIM, which can do anything use keyboard only. Our Java text book used the Hungarian notation ordinary, so it’s a good way to make my coding habit standardization.