Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:58:39 -0500

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On 12/16/2013 5:11 PM, Henry Cate wrote:

     I have a young teenage daughter who is interested
in programming. She has been messing around with something
on Kahn Academy's web site which uses Javascript. A friend
of mine has a teenage son who is also interested in learning
how to program. I would like to get them started with Java,
but Google has 9.5 million hits for: "Introduction to
programming in Java"

    Does anyone have recommendations for an online
forum which teaches the basics of programming, using Java?

    I have read some of the current thread about what
is teaching Java. Here is what I would like:

Good introduction to real programming
Teaches the basics - make no assumptions on what the student already knows
Simple exercises to make sure they understand the concepts
Online video would be nice
Free would be nice

    If you have a strong recommendation for a good book,
I would also appreciate that. (Amazon lists almost 800 books
for the same pattern.

I will recommend a book over a web tutorial.

For a book I would go for an author that is good at writing
beginner programming books over a Java guru.

The Ivor Horton and Herbert Schildt types.

If you insist in a web tutorial, then you should probably
go for the official Java tutorial.

Arne