[Bluej-discuss] excersies solutions?

[Sara Aspery]

Hi Stefan,

Like you I am self-taught, and have no tutor to assist with the 
exercises. When I bought OFWJ, I was disappointed to have worked through 
the first set of exercises only to find there was no way of telling 
whether I was on the right track. I was also annoyed because, on Amazon 
at least, it wasn't made clear that the book is really intended for use 
by teachers, and had I known that, I wouldn't have bought it. On 
reflection I'm glad I did. It is an excellent introduction to Java and I 
would strongly recommend it, despite the lack of exercise solutions.

On that note, a plea to the authors (if they read this list). Please, 
please could future editions take into account those who are self 
teaching? How about two similar sets of exercises, one with and one 
without solutions? We do after all pay the same price as the students, 
but only receive part of the product. It's the only aspect that lets the 
book down, otherwise it is really is excellent.

Regards,
Sara
Stefan wrote:

>Hello Todd,
>
>thanks for the reply it's a shame that the book is organised in this
>way it's understandable but it kind of rules me out of using it as I
>don't have a teacher only myself and my powerbook.
>
>Are the authors reachable? I'm sure they maybe reasonable people who
>might help.
>I learnt about blue j and the book as they did a demo of greenfoot at
>the java developers conference in Westminster London, they were also
>answering all the questions the student couldn't in another demo which
>was cool :)
>
>Stefan
>
>
>
>On 4/30/07, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
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>>Because the book is used as a text in lots of classes, the solutions are
>>hard to come by. (I think you can get a password if you're a teacher.)
>>
>>If you could somehow convince someone you were using the book for your
>>own study (and wouldn't post the solutions somewhere), you might be able
>>to get access to them. Or you might not. I don't make those decisions.
>>
>>Todd
>>
>>On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:46 +0100, Stefan wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have been looking at the ofwj in my local borders and the book
>>>appears to be very well written and structured, but I was wondering
>>>were the solutions are? I ask because I was reading a chapter and
>>>couldn't see the answers in the back of the book, are they included
>>>with the shiny CD?
>>>
>>>I'm interested to find this out because I would like to grab a copy.
>>>
>>>Stefan
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