When you talk with people about learning to program, and especially learning to program in Java, theBlueJenvironment is often mentioned as a good introductory environment to get started. BlueJ is a free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide. It is also ...
BlueJ is free software, simple to use, consisting of an editor, a compiler, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and a debugger. One of its main attractions is that it includes a window which graphically displays the class structure like UML and supports code generation from diagrams. Today, many...
The traditional lecture, with hundreds of students sitting in a room to receive the wisdom from the front, is jetsam. At my institution, there will be no face-to-face lectures until 2021. This is mostly because we will not be legally allowed to put students into many of the lecture theat...
For example, while both BlueJ and Alice target novices in object-oriented programming, BlueJ is based on UML and Java, while Alice uses a built-in drag-and-drop interface to program a 3D world with a high degree of interaction. DrScheme is used for teaching the fundamentals of how to ...