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Teaching object-oriented programming with Greenfoot

Teaching object-oriented programming with GreenfootGreenfootThe guys who wrote and developed Greenfoot taught me last year at university :-)C++, Delphi Pascal, c#, smalltalk, Ruby and othersI got a rather long history of object oriented programming tools and experience. The problem with object oriented programming is that very few actually insist...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented, object-oriented programming, Greenfoot

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

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Greenfoot 1.5.6 (Mac)

An integrated development environment that makes it easy to write games and simulations in the Java Programming Language. It comes with a broad range of demo scenarios and documentation that gets newcomers started very quickly. Greenfoot may be used to learn or teach programming, or just to put a cool...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, University Of Kent, Games, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-19

Teaching object-oriented programming with Greenfoot

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop providing financial and consultative support to the developers to teach students about object-oriented programming. While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to...

Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Student, Object-oriented, Programming, Greenfoot IDE, Development Tools, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12

I finally have a chance tonight to follow up on my interview with Joe Hartley of Sun Microsystems since the only news floating around relates in some way to that silly little election we have coming up in a few weeks. I wanted to focus tonight on...

Tags: Software, School, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Bradford, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Hardware, Storage, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-15