Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2014-09-26 15:03:47 - Graham Ellis
Yes, we CAN teach you to program in Java. And we'll teach you with a view to the latest versions of Java too ... at the end of this article's a list of some of the things added to Java 8 (not yet the standard run time environemnt) and Java 7 and we will tell you about those as appropriate. We'll do a darned good job of teaching your newcomers to programming in the up to date language.
So why aren't we offering public Java courses? Because everyone who uses Java want and needs to go on and use some other associated technoogies, and there are simply too any of those associated technologies for us to be experts in them all to the level of being able to provide professional training.
I have a couple of active "Learning to Program in Java" requests active as I write - if you have one too, please get in touch. We'll set your team - or the less experienced members of your team if you've already got some experienced programmers, well versed in Java basics and ready to go on and learn the associiated technologies
New in Java 8
Lambda Expression and Virtual Extension Methods
New date and Time API to handle date and time in a more natural way
Improved Security
New in Java 7
Diamond Operator
Using strings in switch statements
Automatic resource management
Numeric literals with underscores
Improved exception handling
A new java.nio.file package
File change notifications
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