Programming and coding skills are in high demand, and can provide access to employment in growing fields. But a high percentage of undergraduates who enroll in relevant programs do not persist until they achieve competency in the subject and employment in the field. Revel is an interactive learning environment intended to help students prepare for class by reading a little, then doing a little. Each title within Revel consists of instructional text interspersed with videos, interactives, and scored tasks. The Revel title of interest to this work -- "Introduction to Java Programming" by Y. Daniel Liang -- leverages principles from learning science to take learners on the journey from reading, to visualizing and interacting with prewritten Java programs, and finally to writing their own programs with immediate feedback. This journey helps learners experience the path from an abstract problem to writing a program in Java that solves that problem. Because Java programming is required for many software development roles, Pearson explored how the use of Revel for "Introduction to Java Programming" is related to learner outcomes related to achievement on assigned tasks, tests, and the course as a whole. This study investigated data from 114 students enrolled in an introductory computer science course at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from the Spring 2018 semester to the Fall 2019 semester, who used "Introduction to Java Programming." Results show that students' persistence with challenging programming tasks in Revel tends to pay off in the form of higher scores on those tasks. Students whose persistence leads to gains in performance also tend to achieve higher course grades. [For the summary report, "Revel for 'Introduction to Java Programming.' Product Efficacy Report Summary," see ED609218.]