It's legit. I just doned on me with all those phony Paypal spams, using
the path cgi-bin and ending it with the Perl extention was not a very
good idea when posting a link. The link is still good. It's only Perl
page because I needed a page counter. I'll see ya later.
It didn't seem to steal my credit card number if thats what you mean
.
Seriously though, good to see a decent step-by-step for the beginner. I
have a couple of suggestions if you're interested:
1) We don't require an IDE - it just helps. I worked for many years with
JEdit and a command line. Only recently did I switch to Eclipse, because
only recently have I had enough hardware to make it worthwhile.
2) Since you're aiming at the beginner, it might be worth including at
least links to some alternatives. One that springs to mind, and has been
mentioned in this group before, is BlueJ (
http://bluej.org). I have no
experience with it personally, but it's described on the website as "an
integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory
teaching". Some others are Eclipse (
www.eclipse.org) and IntelliJ IDEA
(
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) although this last is a commercial
product.
3) Have a read of
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html and
consider linking it from your page.
Anyway, thanks again for your efforts. Keep up the good work
