Java Educators For Kids If twelve years ago kids were not overly interested in learning programming, many of them are now (thank you, smart-phones). Times change… ...

You can tell that Cesar Tron-Lozai is comfortable with kids. He starts off a Java training session for scores of Minecraft enthusiasts—which, given the virtual world’s player demographic ...

Experimental Videogame Teaches Kids How to Program Java Many videogames let you cast your very own magic spells. Usually, this involves pressing the right button on your mouse.

More points of interest from last week's Oracle woo-pitching at EclipseCon ! You might recall that in 2008 Tim Bray (who, by the way, recently turned down an offer to stay with Oracle in order to ...

The difference between teaching Java to kids and adults is that kids respond better when writing GUI programs, and Java is well equipped for this. I’m talking about JavaFX now; the Swing ...