I've been toying with the idea of programming. I majored in information systems management in college. I'm not great with mathematics and I'd have never made it through a Computer Science program.

But I went through archaic and purely academic procedural programming courses and got nowhere - and had professors that bluntly told me I shouldn't even be in their class.

For kicks I have gone through a couple of chapters of this book and I actually get it! For the first time I really understand the object oriented idea and am learning things that they never taught in school.

I went through this chapter and I actually put it together and the program compiled and ran. It's left me wondering - what else can I do with this thing? I picked this chapter to look at first just because most of what i've messed with recently has been the Microsoft Visual Studio applications. I look forward to learning the stuff in the rest of the book and for the first time I feel like programming is something I can really do.

Cheers to the authors!