If you've missed my previous rants on my schools CS department, in a nutshell, the CS major here is so small that the required classes are offered every other semester and the electives are offered every other
year. For most electives, you only get one shot at them.
That said, there's a Java GUI elective being offered next semester. Course description:
Quote:
Title:
Java Graphical Interfaces
Description:
Many of today's computer applications employ intuitive graphical interfaces to communicate
with the user. This course will explore common user interfaces such as pop-up windows,
menus, scroll bars, tables, trees, buttons, radio buttons and check boxes using Java's
Swing library. In addition, the concepts of event-driven programming and layout managers
will also be studied.
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I'm not particularly interested in Swing, so my question is, (knowing virtually nothing about GUI libraries) would taking a course in Swing be useful for learning Cocoa later? Or are they different enough that it would be a waste of credit hours, better allocated to a different elective?