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Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java

From Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java
Date 2013-12-19 12:09 -0600
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On 12/18/2013 1:32 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
>        1st) the name is not related to the meaning of the class
>             (most severe)
>        2nd) it does not start with an upper-case letter
>        3rd) it contains a comma

The comma was punctuation for the sentence (as mandated by the grammar 
police). The third mistake was using a plural for something not a 
collection. But perhaps that was unfair since it wasn't even an apple 
either.

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