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From: Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:50:37 -0600
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On 12/17/2013 3:30 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 02:40 PM, Henry Cate wrote:
>>
>>     This kind of seems to be what I want:
>>
>> http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=31
>>
>>     I'll check them out this weekend to see if the quality
>> is pretty good and how engaging the videos are.
>>
>
> Very interesting site. Thanks for the link.
> Just did my own comparison - the Hello World video from the
> above with the Hello World video from Cat Horstmann's
> _Java For Everyone: Late Objects, 2nd Edition_.
> I am not a teenager. Bucky uses Eclipse, Cay BlueJ.
>

I looked at a couple of the early videos. A sincere effort but along 
with learning Java, you'll learn a lot of bad habits, especially in 
naming things. E.g., his first example is a hello world program in a 
class called "apples," thereby managing to make three mistakes in one 
short name.