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A design patterns extension for the BlueJ IDE

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James H. Paterson,

John Haddow,

Michael NairnAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 3

Pages 280 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/1140123.1140199

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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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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Paterson, J.H. & Haddow, J. (2004), "A Proposed Design Patterns Extension for the BlueJ IDE", Proc ITiCSE 2004, 279.

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A design patterns extension for the BlueJ IDE
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 3

September 2006

367 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1140123

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2006
390 pages
ISBN:1595930558
DOI:10.1145/1140124
Conference Chair:
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Università di Bologna, Italy
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