Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Riesbeck Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:09:46 -0600 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net MDCN3hTn2t1IEWnFkjBNMQnAkKoK5RU/I3lvmN14QBQwm9neMU Cancel-Lock: sha1:KGIE0SogERKIfthxrbiKa9fB7gc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26993 On 12/18/2013 1:32 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Chris Riesbeck 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.