snforming Science Challenges to Informing C Challenges in Tea

bject-Oriented Programming-OOP is now replacing procedural programming in almost all applications. Software developers prefer using it be-ause of its many advantages. Therefore colleges should be prepared to make changes to their current curriculums to be able to start teaching pro-ramming by using an object-oriented language. This paper describes the usage of Java, an object-oriented language, as a first language taught to omputer science students. It goes through the reasons why the language fails when used to introduce students to computer programming. As a case tudy, the paper describes the current situation at the compute science department at the University of Bahrain and outlines the advantages and dis-dvantages of changing the curriculum in order to include Java as the first language