The 14 chapters of books have been carefully written and edited to present 4 coherent units on issues in introductory programming courses, object-oriented programming, teaching software engineering issues, and assessment. Each individual part has its own detailed introduction. The topics covered span a variety of problems and solutions related to the teaching of programming such as introductory programming courses, exposition of the programming process, apprentice-based learning, functional programming first, problem-based learning, the use of on-line tutorials, object-oriented programming and Java, BlueJ environment to introduce programming, programming model-driven approaches that are contrary to the prevailing language-driven, teaching software engineering, testing, extreme programming, frameworks, feedback and assessment, active learning, technology-based individual feedback, and a mini project programming exams.