Problems in the initial teaching of programming using Java


Problems in the initial teaching of programming using Java is a scholarly work by Ian Utting, published in 2006. The main subjects of the publication include Java Modeling Language, programming language, remote laboratory, Java annotation, generics in Java, Real time Java, strictfp, Java concurrency, Java, Scala, Python, computational thinking, and computer science. In their analysis of the use of Java as a first teaching language, the ACM Java Task Force (JTF) identified a number of issues with the Java language and APIs which caused significant pedagogic problems.
DOI 10.1145/1140124.1140176