Java vs. C++

Hello /prog/, professional shitposter^TM here. One of my Cisco classes for the second 8-week session of this semester was canceled due to low enrollment, and there aren't any other open Cisco classes for me to take, so I was thinking that I'd take a programming class. However, due to my schedule, and the fact that not all classes are open anymore, my only options are either a class on Java or one on C++. Which one would you suggest that I take?

I know regular expression, can make some simple bash scripts, and I mainly work with Cisco IOS and GNU/Linux in my networking classes, so although I don't know a whole lot about programming, I'm not exactly tech-illiterate either.

inb4 read SICP
no classes which fit into my schedule teach Lisp, so that's not an option

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Of course you can do some acrobatics to work around it, but the fact that there's any barrier to writing procedural code at all is telling, don't you think?