Fellow Java Champion, Cay Horstmann, Computer Science Professor at San Jose State University in California, is featured at the Sun Developer Network. One of the questions he answered was “What advice do you have for beginners?”, and he answered:

First, don’t panic. When students first see the API with thousands of classes, they despair. I used to be able to tell them, “That’s OK, at least the language itself is very simple.”

Read the rest of this entry »

Now MIT brings down their OpenCourseware Project to the High Schools. I cannot wait for MIT to provide more courses online – this will greatly help students prepare for possible MIT admission. The challenge now is how these materials will be used in the Philippines – will it be in the secondary or tertiary levels?