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PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A noughts and crosses Java applet to teach programming to primary school children
We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...
J. Paul Gibson
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Towards the systematic use of interfaces in JAVA programming
JAVA’s interface construct is widely perceived as a weak surrogate for multiple inheritance. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that despite their potential for writing...
Friedrich Steimann, Wolf Siberski, Thomas Küh...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting interactive invocation of remote services within an integrated programming environment
Building distributed systems is an inherently difficult and complex task. Modern middleware architectures assist developers ding abstractions that hide transport layer functionali...
Bruce Quig, John Rosenberg, Michael Kölling
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Reusability, open implementation and Java's dynamic proxies
In this paper we investigate the implications of Java’s dynamic proxies for supporting open architectures to implement reusable code. Dynamic proxies are interpreted as meta-obj...
Youssef Hassoun, Roger Johnson, Steve Counsell
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
JVM versus CLR: a comparative study
We present empirical evidence to demonstrate that there is little or no difference between the Java Virtual Machine and the .NET Common Language Runtime, as regards the compilati...
Jeremy Singer