Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : jg.campbell.ng
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 04:34 am


jg.campbell.ng@gmail.com wrote:
> jg.campbell.ng@gmail.com wrote:
> > clemenr@wmin.ac.uk wrote:
> > > Hi. I'm about to write some notes for a university level Java
> > > programming course, specialising in audio/midi applications.
> [...]
>
> >
> > Yes, there are some fine examples on the web. Later I'll attempt to
> > collect a few links and post them here. However, from the web, we would
> > have no idea how the materials are used and presented and what the
> > total experience is.
>
> Not really answering your question, but I am most impressed with:
>
> http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/CIS200/
>
> And maybe the combination of PDF and HTML is useful? HTML more
> projectable?
>
> If you rummage around in Cambridge (UK) and MIT sites (e.g. Daniel
> Jackson) you will find good examples.

Books that might contain ideas:

Cay Horstman, Big Java; Cay Horstman, Java Concepts; (Big Java is the
same with some chapters added). Sierra and Bates, Head First Java (not
everyone's cup of tea, but wothwhile pedagogical lessons in it); Barnes
and Kolling, Objects First with Java (BlueJ); Bruce Eckel's Thinking in
Java.

I was speaking to a former colleagues last week; for his first year
programming class, he has prepared an initial "Java Reference Manual"
-- 32 tightly packed pages. They have eventually settled on JCreator
(www.jcreator.com) as their development environment.

Something like the latter compact reference is important -- to
supplement notes; most students will balk at a book more than 200 pages
(e.g. Java in a Nutshell); they will certainly balk at having to use
multiple documents.

Sesoft's Java Precisely (< 100 pages) may be useful as a (small)
reference.

Good luck,

Jon C.

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