
6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
1:50 a.m.
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
Does anyone know of a good web site to teach programming to people who have no prior experience? One that leads towards Android programing would be good.
If the goal is pedagogy, they should probably learn CS first, after which programming is an incidental triviality. In which case, my set response is
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
Yes, definitely the right recommendation. Android is largely written in Java; the following seems (on quick inspection) to be reasonable: http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/