Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Date: 16 Dec 2013 19:05:53 -0500 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1387238753 11574 166.84.1.2 (17 Dec 2013 00:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26956 In article , Stefan Ram wrote: >markspace writes: >>On 12/16/2013 2:11 PM, Henry Cate wrote: >>> 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. > > There is a single outstanding Java book everybody > recommends. It's »Effective Java« by Joshua Bloch. But this > book is not for beginner's, and I do not know which book one > can recommend to a beginner. Thanks for the suggestion. It does seem too advance for my daughter, but I've been thinking it would be good to go through a book again as a refresher course, so I'll check it out. -- ---------- Henry Cate cate3@panix.com "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." -- Jacob M. Braude Our blog: http://whyhomeschool.blogspot.com/