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This tutorial was created as an independent study project at Duke
University in 2002. It was made by Tim Church and Andy Chappell,
under the supervision of Professor Susan
Rodger.
"Teach Yourself Java" is intended to be a useful, easy-to-follow
tutorial for learning the Java programming language. Several online-tutorials
already exist, but we saw room for improvement in the design and
execution of the Java tutorials. We saw two main problems: First,
most sites raved about Java's ability to make websites interactive,
yet barely any of these tutorials contained Applets themselves.
Second, for the most part, explanations were hard to follow or required
previous programming knowledge to understand.
With this in mind, we gave a survey
to a class of beginning Java programmers. Using these results, we
were able to determine clear objectives for our Java teaching tool:
- Focus on the basics
- EXPLAIN thoroughly and MOVE SLOWLY
- Explain Java/technical terminology
- Teach basic HTML - how to make a webpage and how to add an applet
to that page
- Show line-by-line explanations of code
- List and explain basic/common Java commands
- Provide debugging assistance - list common problems and give
solutions
- Allow for hands-on learning - let students see results of their
programs immediately
A few notes
about viewing this website:
- This site has been optimized for Internet Explorer 4+. (It will
also work properly in Netscape x.x+)
- This site is best viewed in browsers that support Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS). Without style sheets, it may not display properly.
- In order to view the Java Applets, a Java-enabled web browser
in needed with Java installed. For instructions on installing
Java, see Installing Java
- This site uses Javascript and may not display properly in browsers
that do not support Javascript.
- Cookies must be enabled (in order to take the quizzes)
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