At last -- a first programming in Java course that is truly aimed at studentswho have not programmed before! (It has an entry point for those who have.)* Using neither the confusing `objects first' approach, nor the confidencedestroying `objects late' ordering, students are instead taken gently fromtheir natural `task oriented' view of problem solving, through the basics ofprogramming and then soon onto objects.* Every programming and Java concept is introduced, Just in Time, in thecontext of one of more than a hundred program examples, so motivation is neverlacking. Even when objects are introduced, readers immediately see theirbenefit, and thus happily augment their `task oriented' view with the `objectoriented' one.* Programming skill, being at least 51% confidence, is built in manageablelayers by undertaking over one hundred pieces of coursework.* Other learning enhancing aspects include coffee time questions, end ofchapter collected concepts, no use of non-standard library code, andindependence of any confidence-entrapping learning environment.John Latham has been teaching first programming since 1982 using variouslanguages and styles, and this course has been running since 2004 at TheUniversity of Manchester, UK.