Textbooks for BlueJ

BlueJ does not require a special textbook. It can load and execute standard Java projects, so it will work with all standard books and examples.

However, to make most of BlueJ, you can adapt your course to exploit the greater freedom you have with the BlueJ environment.

Here is our book that incorporates the BlueJ tools closely into the text. The book is not a "Learn BlueJ" book - rather, it is a "Learn Object-Oriented Programming" book. BlueJ is just a tool that makes the learning of the concepts easier.

David J. Barnes and Michael Kölling
Objects First with Java - A Practical Introduction using BlueJ
Fourth edition, Prentice Hall / Pearson Education, 2008
ISBN 0-13-606086-2

This is the BlueJ book straight from the source. David J. Barnes, author of a Java text book, and Michael Kölling, one of the authors of BlueJ, have written an introductory OOP textbook that completely integrates BlueJ in its Java introduction.

Get more book information here.

There are other books on the market that make use of BlueJ (although not to the same extent). A web search should help you along to find them.

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