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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Taming Java for the classroom
Java is the canonical language for teaching introductory programming, but its complex syntax and abundance of constructs are difficult for beginners to learn. This paper shows how...
James I. Hsia, Elspeth Simpson, Daniel Smith, Robe...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Taming a professional IDE for the classroom
An important question that must be addressed in a coherent computing curriculum is which programming environments to use across the curriculum. For Java, currently the most widely...
Charles Reis, Robert Cartwright
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Bantam: a customizable, java-based, classroom compiler
This paper introduces the Bantam Java compiler project, a new language and compiler designed specifically for the classroom. Bantam Java, the source programming language, is a sma...
Marc L. Corliss, E. Christopher Lewis
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Test-first Java concurrency for the classroom
Concurrent programming is becoming more important due to the growing dominance of multi-core processors and the prevalence of graphical user interfaces (GUIs). To prepare students...
Mathias Ricken, Robert Cartwright