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Karel J Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java
by Joseph Bergin, Mark Stehlik, Jim Roberts
ISBN: 0970579519
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jlas
· 2013-11-17 ·
Original thread
The intro to programming class I took at CMU (Fall of '05) was pretty much this. We learned Java using a robot simulator. It was based on Karel the Robot, adapted for Java:
http://www.amazon.com/Karel-Robot-Introduction-Object-Orient...