[PJUG Javamail] So Many Languages, So Little Time

[Christopher Anderson]

I love the Head First books for an introduction to just about everything and
would recommend Head First Java: http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfjava/
The format is a bit innovative and may not work for everyone...  check it
out before you buy.

The Head First Programming book uses Python, but is very late and not yet
released or announced.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Phillip Miller <pcmiller at us.ibm.com>wrote:

>
> I agree that for a real programming language (as opposed to a scripting
> language like JavaScript or Perl, or a "dead" language like C, Lisp,
> Scheme), Java is a very good language. It offers a clean, consistent
> programming model and has fewer quirks than other languages.
>
> That said, Java does have a few "gotchas" (the polite word is probably
> "idioms"), like the correct way to execute external processes.
>
> I recommend a few references:
>
>    - A good tutorial book for beginners; O'Reilly has a bunch of 'em.
>    - A book on the quirks (stuff like running external processes w/o I/O
>    blocking, etc.) 'Java Pitfalls', for example.
>    - Don't forget the JavaDoc -- Sun provides detailed documentation about
>    the classes and packages it provides on its (well, Oracle's) web site.
>    Duh! Why am I telling a guy from SUN about JavaDoc ?!?
>
>
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>  From: Joshua Marinacci <Joshua.Marinacci at Sun.COM> To: Richard Johnson <
> richardj at lingosys.com>
> Cc: javamail at pjug.org Date: 04/28/2009 09:29 AM Subject: Re: [PJUG
> Javamail] So Many Languages, So Little Time
> ------------------------------
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>
> Java would provide the best base for learning more in the future.
> JavaScript would provide the most functionality in the short term with the
> least amount of knowledge.
> Does it want to learn how to program or does he want to build some
> particular thing?
>
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Richard Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a friend who is a project manager.  He gets joys and heartaches
> associated with seeing that computer games get built on schedule, according
> to spec, and within budget.  He is not a software guy in the same sense that
> we are but more of a people and process person.  He has told me a couple of
> times recently that he wants to learn to do some limited programming and/or
> scripting.  He's slowly teaching himself AppleScript now.
>
> What language should I recommend he learn, why would you recommend it, and
> do you have a good source or pointer for tutorials since he'll probably need
> to do it mostly on his own?  Perl, Ruby, Grails, Java, C, Lisp, Scheme ...
> something else?
>
> --
> Richard Johnson
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