Ken Arnold and James Gosling. 1998. 2nd ed, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. [ISBN 0-201-31006-6. 464 pages, including index. $37.95 (softcover).] As more technical communicators settle into documenting the inner workings of systems and related programming outputs, publications like The Java programming language are settling into places of honor on writers' bookshelves.
This paper posits an approach for the design of programming language courses. The approach consists of 7 steps. Step 1 was thought to help learners to rectify their negative beliefs in order to cope with the learners' emotional aspect. Step 2 proposes the intersection among the learners' knowledge and abilities background in order to help the learners to construct their own knowledge based on t…