Hello all,
I thougt this list might be interested in a posting I just made
on a computer science educators list.
Stan
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> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:45:06 PDT
> Sender: SIGCSE Member Forum <SIGCSE.MEMBERS{([at]})nowhere.xy> From: Stan Warford <warford{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Re: A student-oriented package for Java I/O
> To: SIGCSE.MEMBERS{([at]})nowhere.xy>
> Re:
>
> > Does anyone have any experiences, positive and negative, on this -- either
> > with Java or with I/O packages in other languages used in CS1-CS2?
>
> and from a follow-up post:
>
> > We're currently using Java in CS1/CS2 here at Kettering University.
> > Our courses are essentially 11 weeks long, so we don't have time to
> > do anything with GUIs in CS1. So, we stick with text-based I/O.
>
> The problem of using a GUI in the intro course is a recurring topic
> that follows from the decision to use Java as the language. If you
> are willing to consider a paradigm shift and go with another OO
> language altogether you can have the benefits of programming with
> dialog boxes from the first week of class and continue with them
> throughout the course. We have done it for three years at Pepperdine.
> The framework is BlackBox, a cross-platform, object-oriented
> development system that is available free to students and
> professors from the internet. There is a paper "BlackBox: A New
> Object-Oriented Framework for CS1/CS2" that was presented at SIGCSE
> with a copy posted at
>
> ftp://ftp.pepperdine.edu/pub/compsci/prog-bbox/
>
> which also contains a 400-page manuscript that you are free to use
> as the text in the course.
>
> The radically simple process by which students can program with a
> GUI follows from the framework, which is based on "components"
> instead of a library of objects. If you really want to see what
> is possible for students programming a GUI in the intro course,
> you should check out our experience. It is easy and it works.
> Think different.
>
> Stan
> =============================
> J. Stanley Warford
> Professor of Computer Science
> Pepperdine University
> Malibu, CA 90263
> warford{([at]})nowhere.xy> =============================
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