A big part of Java is the syntax is easy to grasp and you don't have to deal with pointers. Android is something good to get into as well. I personally have a love/hate relationship with Android but it's not because of fragments. I'm still learning fragments but I have a good professor who's...
The reason Apple is more profitable is kind of a more complex demographic thing and less to do with coding. Though it could also be that people tend to charge for apps more often on iTunes because Apple has a reoccurring cost to publish you app while Google play has a one time small fee
Android is easier to get started/less stressful. That said I wouldn't attempt it until you've got Java down well.
As far as older languages still being used, you can't just rewrite entire systems written in a language. You have to maintain what's already there.
I think the reason most people are recommending C++ is because there are still a lot of people out there who learned that first and you're always partial to your first language. My university tried to teach me C++ and it didn't really stick. Java was way easier.
You can always learn both...
Well it wasn't so much C++ was hard than it was Java was easier. C++ used to be refered to by some people as C with objects (not to be confused with objective C, two different things) because it was built upon C with added functionality. You can create classes and use the code objectively...
I'm a CS major myself, about to graduate in a couple of months. I tried learning c++ as my first language but kinda got confused and quit. When my major classes kicked in they had us doing a lot of C at first and that's a terrible way to start in my opinion.
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