Abstract
This article presents a new programming language called
J.T.W. for the sole purpose of making it easier to learn
to program in Java. The acronym J.T.W. stands for
Java Training Wheels. The name Java
Training Wheels was the outcome of an email conversation with
Dr. Richard Stallman , the
President of the Free Software
Foundation and founder of the GNU
Project, creator of
GNU Emacs, the
GNU Compiler Collection and the
GNU
Debugger, which ultimately resulted in the
GNU/Linux
operating system. The J.T.W. language has a similar syntax to
Delphi, Pascal, BASIC and JavaScript and therefore learning
J.T.W. before or while learning Java provides a less steep
learning curve than learning Java from scratch. For many
reasons you might even prefer to program in J.T.W. rather than
Java.
Main Article
Java Training Wheels has been accepted by Richard Stallman
into the GNU Project's repository of free software.
Henceforth my language will be known by the slightly longer
name GNU Java Training
Wheels. Click here for
tutorials about using the J.T.W language. You can view
the front and back cover of my book by clicking on the image
on the right of this paragraph.
You can view the actual text of the book by clicking here.
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