Nice little surprise arrived with me last week, as the first M257 mailing hit my doorstep – completely unexpected, as the course isn’t due to start until 6th October. If I wasn’t enjoying my short study break so much, it would be a great opportunity to get ahead a little…

Materials look straightforward enough – the first few units are going back over the history of Java and giving overviews of its use in projects large- and small-scale before it finally gets on to the coding again. Looking forwared to using a “real” IDE (NetBeans) instead of BlueJ, not so sure about some of the topics they’re due to cover later in the course!