Just in case you didn't see it... there was a little
thread about the title of Sun Certified
Java Instructor at :
Instructor Cert thread Sun also used to have a similar program for the academic market, but it allowed the teacher to have a lot more flexibility than our *corporate* instructors had.
If you haven't seen Sun's courseware, well, I won't say anything about it in a public forum... but let's just say that if you take the complete OPPOSITE of Head First style, in every possible way, that's what you'll get.
Of course, they had different constraints. For one thing, they were always very concerned about translations, so we weren't even allowed to use contractions. (I'm still wondering what kind of translator is good enough to do the job, but not good enough to know how to cope with a contraction...)
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Here's my feeling about contractions: think about films and televion. Whenever a show wants to portray someone as a robot/android/not humsn, the simplest way to do that is just don't have them use contractions. Commander Data didn't use contractions. Heck, even SPOCK didn't use contractions. So, approachable humans use contractions, robots and emotion-free vulcans do not. And that's just how I feel about an editorial process that prohibits the use of contractions!
I understand that the ability to easily localize is an important consideration, but in my opinion, not worth sucking the last ounce of life out of the material.
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Perhaps this attitude of mine is why they, um, *chose* to have me be a contractor now and not an employee
cheers,
Kathy