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I was checking out some questions and answers regarding programming languages and this is what I have found there.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-strang...evelopment

John Ohno Wrote:These problems are compounded in practice in industry, where there’s a lot of java code being written by kids just out of college (where they spent four years getting told that inheritance is the best way to do code reuse & abstraction layers have no downsides, while they worked on nothing but toy problems).

I found some paragraph quite interesting and started wondering why teachers would care to make their students waste their precious time with nonsensical stuff.

Well, if Moghunter used inheritance when making his original XP menus, his scripts would have been 50% shorter and more compatible with nearly anything else.

Nonsensical stuff?   Toy problems?  Perhaps that would be dependent upon the professor.  When I was dealing with code, it was more towards dealing with customer databases, point of sales and salaries.  Still,  I expect Java to be more audio-visual, so gaming would be a logical direction.

Be wary of professors with special projects...  One might be putting together a lazer weapon system using his students as workers:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKXjJ7O0s4