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Subject: Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java
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On 12/16/2013 2:11 PM, Henry Cate wrote:
>
> 	Does anyone have recommendations for an online
> forum which teaches the basics of programming, using Java?
>
> 	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 literally do not.  Java's a big subject, and all of my own study has 
been aimed at professional programming.  It's been decades since I 
looked at anything for teens.

So I went on Amazon and I looked at some of the titles that came up. 
This caught my eye.

<http://www.amazon.com/Do---Yourself-Java-Games-Introduction-ebook/dp/B00H8T3AEY/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387232314&sr=1-15&keywords=introduction+to+java+programming>