Practical Java Game Programming Dustin Clingman, Shawn Kendall, Syrus Mesdaghi
Publisher: Charles River Media

BlueJ is a Java IDE specifically designed to learn and teach object-oriented programming and Java. Hence the Java model far exceeds the familiar 3d world most games have to model. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). When I discovered Scala I fell in love and thought it was the be-all and the end-all of programming languages and very applicable to games. Early CASE tools were programming language independent and were stand alone applications. Game Loop timings coming up slow? Objects First With Java A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ. Objects First With Java The 5th edition of the BlueJ book. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. I never really thought to write games in Java, though.