Devorah and I spent this week in Savannah Georgia. Our first time. For the past few years, we've taken a trip mid winter to someplace warmer. Not necessarily warm but warmer. Last year was Charleston SC, this year Savannah. The weather was perfect, at least for me. Mid 50s in the mornings so I could run in shorts and short sleeves in the morning and in the 70s by late afternoon.

It seems that every year or so we have a discussion as to what's the best programming language to teach first. I thought today I'd look at a variation of that question. What language features should we teach, when and why. I was thinking about this after someone in my StuyCS alumni community asked about which Java version was used in APCS. He was tutoring a current Stuy student and was wondering about language features.

So, while I'm working on getting off of Google, I thought it was also time to unlink my blog from GitHub. It's still, at least for the time being, hosted on GitHub but I've switched it over to my domain. The blog's official address is now cestlaz.zamansky.net. The old address of cestlaz.github.io should still work since it's still hosted on GitHub. I'll probably move the actual hosting somewhere else at some point int he future.