computer programming at the community college

I took an introduction to java programming last semester. The class in itself was nothing earth shattering. We covered if/else statements, while loops, array, multidimensional array, and got a brief introduction to objects and classes.

Now I'm taking the second class, which is an introduction to data structs. The professor, in the course of three weeks, managed to cover objects,  inheritance, try/expect, generics, and all the other OOP fog. Now we're doing linked lists Wtf? shouldn't there have been an extra semester dedicated to the OOP fog before starting data structures?

>Now I'm taking the second class, which is an introduction to data structs

If it's an introduction to data structures i would expect nothing less than linked lists.

For an introduction, i would cover at least linked lists and binary search trees.

What educational facility do you attend?

Do it in Erlang.

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One that is located in Daly City, CA

what is the problem OP

It was the same way when I had a Java module... spent ages on the easy crap, then rushed through the more complex concepts.