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About the Book
“Learn Java the Hard Way” is a book with tutorial videos that teaches you how to code the same way a lot of us learned as children in the 1980s: typing in short, simple programs and getting them to work.
The exercises and explanations in this book are distilled from my nearly two decades of experience teaching programming to ordinary students. Over 2,000 students have taken my classes and nine months later almost all of them knew how to code — at least a little!
If you have ever bought another Java book for “beginners” and been lost by page 10, then my book is for you.
Includes:
- 244-page book. Really learn the basics of programming with Java, even if other books have failed you.
- Java source code for all the example programs in the book
- dozens of Study Drills to test your understanding
About the Author
I have been teaching normal kids to code and nerds to be more socially savvy since 1997.
More specifically, I've been teaching Computer Science at Leander High School (near Austin, TX) since the fall of 1997. The high school I teach at is a pretty good school; consistently ranked near the top 5% of public schools nationally. I have many students who are exceptional but most of my students are regular kids with no particular aptitude for programming.
To date, I've taught over 2000 students in person the basics of coding, and hundreds more through my book(s).