Java for Dummies

[pjclarke]

Despite my advice, my 15 yr old son wants to get into coding, and he has entered the Yound Rewired State coding camp thingy. He is teaching himself Javascript and Java and I was wondering what good
books and online resources there are available, me being a Java virgin.

He is a novice, but has excellent mathematical and analytical skills, I'd like something that took him from 'Hello World' up to the basics of OOP .....

Any recommends, avoids?

[doodab]

The java tutorial on the oracle sun website is a good start.

[Moscow Mule]

Head First books are good.

Mine is currently propping up a monitor, but it was good for it's original purpose too...

[sunflower]

Hi

The Sams series, Teach Yourself in 21 days or even the 24 hours ones are normally a good starting point. In some of them, you can work on an application or sample project.

Books by Bruce Eckel like Thinking in Java are great. He's an excellent writer.
I can also reccommend the Head First series by Kathy Sierra.

If your son really gets into java, he might want to take a look at some java based open source frameworks. The Manning Press have some nice ones.

The W3schools.com have some nice tutorials on javascript and website programming.

Enjoy.

[petergriffin]

Despite my advice, my 15 yr old son wants to get into coding

You must do something, he can't remain virgin forever.

[kingcook]

The Sams series, Teach Yourself in 21 days or even the 24 hours ones are normally a good starting point. In some of them, you can work on an application or sample project.

+1

I have recently did the Sams book in 21 days, very good as a starter (having lots of years experience in some other language, and knowing practically nothing about Java).