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At last -- a first programming in Java course that is truly aimed at studentswho have not programmed before! (It has an entry point for those who have.)* Using neither the confusing objects first' approach, nor the confidencedestroying objects late' ordering, students are instead taken gently fromtheir natural task oriented' view of problem solving, through the basics ofprogramming and then soon onto objects.* Every programming and Java concept is introduced, Just in Time, in thecontext of one of more than a hundred program examples, so motivation is neverlacking. Even when objects are introduced, readers immediately see theirbenefit, and thus happily augment their task oriented' view with the objectoriented' one.* Programming skill, being at least 51% confidence, is built in manageablelayers by undertaking over one hundred pieces of coursework.* Other learning enhancing aspects include coffee time questions, end ofchapter collected concepts, no use of non-standard library code, andindependence of any confidence-entrapping learning environment.John Latham has been teaching first programming since 1982 using variouslanguages and styles, and this course has been running since 2004 at TheUniversity of Manchester, UK.