For me it was an extremely easy class. But I spent 15 to 20 hours a
week helping three or four friends of mine who had no clue of what was
going on. They were intelligent people, but they hadn't had any
experience with programming. Eventually they caught on and did well in
the class.


That's a little strong Andrew, I'd had a little experience with programming (VB and C++ Hello world), but none with java, and the only language I'd ever taught myself on my own was Hypercard script. I seem to recall that you got a book on java rather than the trash first draft text book they fleeced us with and had the time, inclination, and experience to figure out the stuff in your book. Frequently a lot of our problems are due to not knowing how to describe our problem (syntax and language constructs in this case) more than not knowing what needs to be done.

Scott K.

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