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Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java

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Jeff Raab,

Richard Rasala,

Viera K. ProulxAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 32, Issue 3

Pages 156 - 159

https://doi.org/10.1145/353519.343155

Published: 13 July 2000 Publication History

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We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this toolkit are to provide:• an infrastructure for creating well designed programs that illustrates the concepts of computer science and its practical applications• an environment for learning the basic ideas of interface design and for experimenting with a variety of designs• a paradigm for building interfaces in Java that scales from individual data items to large structures, using recursively displayable container classesAdditionally, the toolkit classes themselves can be studied as examples of proper object oriented design, and of building event listeners.

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Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 32, Issue 3

Sept. 2000

229 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/353519

Editor:
John Impagliazzo
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, New York

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ITiCSE '00: Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
July 2000
197 pages
ISBN:1581132077
DOI:10.1145/343048
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Jorma Tarhio
Univ. of Joensuu, Joensuu,Finland
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Sally Fincher
Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
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Daniel Joyce
Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA

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