Her first lecture was a disaster. As she clicked through Slide 103 on “Command Line Arguments,” a student in the third row, Rohan, raised his hand. “Ma’am, the book says ‘Java is platform independent,’ but your slide says ‘WORA – Write Once, Run Anywhere’… what does that actually feel like?”
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