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Articles

• The Dark Side of Java -- an assessment of some language shortcomings that make Java programs expensive to maintain and that make Java hard to teach.
• Pseudo Classes and Quasi-Classes Confuse Object-Oriented programming. -- a look at a surprisingly common bad-design pattern.
• Java's Casts of Thousands
• Conventions for Arithmetic Operations in Java -- how to deal with Java's lack of operator overloading.
• Teaching C++ -- Unique Challenges -- Although this 3-year-old article was written about C++, most of what it says applies equally to Java.
• Data Item Taxonomy : A clarification of an essential distinction in object-oriented class design.
• Case Construct Widely Misused to Implement a Table. A comment on a puzzling growing practice among students and some authors.
• Self-Documenting Source Code Unrealized from COBOL to javadoc -- another popular tool appears overrated

Also see articles on teaching programming.

Book reviews:

• An absolute must for every Java programmer.
• An Excellent Java textbook from SunSoft.
• The best yet book on web development.

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  Last modified November 22, 2001