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Teaching new programmers: a Java tool set as a student teaching aid
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Source ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 25 archive
Proceedings of the inaugural conference on the Principles and Practice of programming, 2002 and Proceedings of the second workshop on Intermediate representation engineering for virtual machines, 2002 table of contents
Dublin, Ireland
SESSION: Teaching with Java table of contents
Pages: 95 - 100  
Year of Publication: 2002
ISBN:0 901519 87 1
Author
Bob Lang  University of the West of England, Bristol
Sponsor
: SUN Microsystems, Ltd.
Publisher
National University of Ireland  Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland, Ireland
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ABSTRACT

The javac compiler does not always produce error message suitable for learners and there are many Java traps which the compiler does not report. This paper describes a tool set which helps students avoid some of these difficulties.


REFERENCES

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The Java Standard Development Kit can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/
 
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PFE (Programmer's File Editor) can be downloaded from http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000017700
 
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The student version of the Java tools for Windows can be downloaded from http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~lrlang/

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.5 Testing and Debugging
          Subjects: Debugging aids; Error handling and recovery
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: Java


General Terms:
Algorithms, Documentation, Theory


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