Author Archives: Ken Fogel

About Ken Fogel

Java Champion and author of Transitioning to Java for Packt Publishing. Organizer of the online JChampions Conference as well as speaking at conferences. Currently a Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College after retiring from the classroom. Passionate about teaching and inspiring everyone to be better programmers.

My Java Conferences

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In 2015, after returning from my second JavaOne conference I decided that we needed a Java conference here in Montreal. With Dawson College’s support I created a NetBeans Day. It was onsite at the college in January 2016 just before students returned to classes after the holiday break. Some speakers came to the college, and some presented online. We had… Read more »

On Writing Transitioning to Java, My First Book

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I decided to write a book. What academic has not thought about doing this. I spent 31 years teaching programming starting with Pascal and then through my career C, C++, Perl, PHP, and finally Java. There have been other languages I used before I became an instructor. The most lucrative contract I ever had involved writing in PL/1 on an… Read more »