[shortbus]

i am in AP computer science and a good friend of mine in the class is having an extremely hard time grasping the subject. With that said i have offered to tutor her but i am having trouble finding decent basic text tutorials. does anyone know where i can find a few?

[astonecipher]

Are there particular area's she is having trouble in or the whole language?

[GregBrannon]

Can't you just use the class material? There's also an AP CompSci website that provides additional material (or maybe the base material, don't know). You might search for that to see if it has suggestions. The Oracle tutorials are always a good fallback.

This post has been edited by GregBrannon: 07 November 2013 - 11:34 AM

[Dankwansere]

There are plenty of tutorials in this forum. You can check out

Tutorials

This post has been edited by Dankwansere: 07 November 2013 - 11:34 AM

[shortbus]

the first thing i did was go on here and check for basic tutorials but i could not find any super basic ones. ( she wants to go back to the very basics) so i am having a hard time finding really basic text tutorials. (my comp sci class didnt start at the basics because it was covered in the previous class.) so because of this out class material doesnt go back far enough.

[Rhino1111]

So your friend got into the 2nd year class without taking the introductory course?

[no2pencil]

Rhino1111, on 07 November 2013 - 02:47 PM, said:

So your friend got into the 2nd year class without taking the introductory course?

Probably from a lot of help.

shortbus, on 07 November 2013 - 02:41 PM, said:

the first thing i did was go on here and check for basic tutorials but i could not find any super basic ones.

You don't get much more basic than introduction to arrays, except maybe hello world.

[shortbus]

i was stupid and did most of her work for her last year and it fucked her over this year. plus she never did any work outside of class so she fell REALLY behind.

[Dankwansere]

shortbus, on 07 November 2013 - 01:58 PM, said:

i was stupid and did most of her work for her last year and it fucked her over this year. plus she never did any work outside of class so she fell REALLY behind.

If that is the case then i'd recommend you do the right thing and tell her to repeat the course. There could be alot of basic concepts that she missed out on

[shortbus]

the kind of tutorials im looking for are stuff on basic binary operations, how to call methods, how to write methods. how to do basic debugging, for loops and while loops and inheritance. im thinking of just writing one myself but if its already up somewhere i would prefer not to

[no2pencil]

It doesn't sound like she fell behind, it sounds like she never started.

As previously suggested, why not go over the actual course work? & since you did it for her, just go through it with her. Not sure why you need us to point you to tutorials that cover what you've already done.

Just to note, this is why we urgently promote to not hand out answers. There is a huge difference between helping & doing the work for them. This is a perfect example of how bad things can get when the fundamentals are completed, & not understood.

[modi123_1]

Honestly - get this person a book... Quibbling over if something is "super basic"-ier than a "basic" tutorial here is just nonsense. Any of the suggested books in the pinned thread, or even the 'Dietel and Dietel' book.. I think I used one book for a java course.. and the c++ version for two c++ classes.

[shortbus]

yea thats why im tutoring her now so she doesnt fail for the year. and the course material that is being presented in the course is to high level. and i dont have access to the lower level stuff. i think ill just write my own examples and what not

[cronus8992]

This is a good basic tutorial. It is a set of 3.

Basic Java For N00bs

This website has some great explanation videos for basic learners.

The New Boston

Finally this site has a good set of examples and practice things to help start coding.

CodingBat Java

None of this helps though if she is not willing to apply herself. She has to be willing to want to learn. Computer Science is not something you can just pick and do. You have to be interested in it or it will just seem a bore all the way through.

P.S. Forgot this one. Its almost all pure text but has been helpful in some spots while I am learning.

Java Basics

This post has been edited by cronus8992: 07 November 2013 - 12:51 PM

[macosxnerd101]

Check out my Getting Better at Programming Java thread. It starts with a Hello, World tutorial; and NeoTifa's Basic Java for N00blets tutorials are really great resources!