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Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java

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In article <Java-book-20131216234358@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> 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.



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Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-16 17:11 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-16 14:23 -0800
    Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-12-17 00:06 +0100
    Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-16 19:05 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-16 17:25 -0500
    Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-16 19:01 -0500
      Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-16 22:42 -0500
        Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-16 23:36 -0500
          Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-17 14:37 -0500
            Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-12-17 22:33 +0000
              Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-17 18:02 -0500
              Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-17 18:25 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-16 21:58 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-17 00:28 -0500
    Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java cate3@panix.com (Henry Cate) - 2013-12-17 14:40 -0500
      Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-17 16:30 -0500
        Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using   Java Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 12:50 -0600
          Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2013-12-19 12:09 -0600
            Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-12-20 13:04 +0200
              Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2013-12-20 16:54 +0100
                Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-21 13:02 +0000
          Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2013-12-19 12:22 -0600
          Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-30 15:14 -0500
          Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2014-01-02 01:58 -0400
            Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-01-02 20:26 -0500
      Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-17 18:01 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-17 08:09 +0000
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-12-17 13:49 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Ali Sh <ali.shahrivarian@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 03:44 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java marianne.paradiso@gmail.com - 2013-12-19 12:02 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for an online Introduction to programming using Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-12-21 05:00 -0800

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