David J. Barnes, Michael Kolling: Objects First With Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (3rd Edition)

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Objects First With Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (3rd Edition)

The book has a very clear identity. It takes a truly objects first approach to teaching problem solving using Java. These are complicated concepts so the book uses the development environment BlueJ to help the student's understanding. BlueJ has a strong emphasis on visualization and interaction techniques, and allows the students to manipulate objects and call methods as a first exercise.... (read more)

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“This is a truly excellent book designed to be used with the free BlueJ educational IDE (integrated development environment). If you are a novice and wish to learn programming, you can pretty much do it with this book and BlueJ. Of course, you will get more out of it if you can take a class that uses the book as the text.

Once you feel comfortable with BlueJ, you can graduate to the special Netbeans IDE BlueJ edition, a full-blown professional development environment especially...”

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