A design patterns extension for the BlueJ IDE

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A design patterns extension for the BlueJ IDE

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Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Bologna, Italy

SESSION: Software engineering table of contents

Pages: 280 - 284

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-055-8

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James H. Paterson	Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
John Haddow	Bell College, Hamilton, UK
Michael Nairn	Bell College, Hamilton, UK

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Design patterns now have a strong influence on the design and development of object oriented software. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to teach patterns. In this paper we describe a tool, in the form of an extension to the BlueJ IDE, which has been developed to encapsulate knowledge of patterns in the IDE and to help students explore them and learn how to make use of them. The extension adds the capability to BlueJ to provide step-by-step construction of a pattern-based solution to a programming problem. We present technical details of the tool and describe an example of its use.

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