Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Teaching kids to program (in Java) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 12:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <4f87624e$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4f88c7dd$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4fa5c245$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1336306018 28309 84.45.235.129 (6 May 2012 12:06:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 12:06:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14334 On Sat, 05 May 2012 20:13:54 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 4/13/2012 10:08 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >> >> The library is big, but with a small subset you can do the usual things >> that beginning programmers need to do. > > java.lang, java.io and java.util could bring one a good step forward. > java.lang and java.util are fine, but java.io has always struck me as needlessly quirky. Coming, as I did, from an assembler/C/Algol/COBOL background it was by far the most difficult part of Java to get my head round. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |