[Bluej-discuss] Execute BlueJ

[Bruce Quig]

A couple of reference points:

http://www.bluej.org/about/why.html

There's a list of bluej related papers at:

http://www.bluej.org/about/papers.html

One in particular to look at is:

Kölling, M., Quig, B., Patterson, A. and Rosenberg, J., The BlueJ  
system and its pedagogy, Journal of Computer Science Education,  
Special issue on Learning and Teaching Object Technology, Vol 13, No  
4, Dec 2003.

http://www.bluej.org/papers/2003-12-CSEd-bluej.pdf

Which gives some background on some of the issues BlueJ tries to  
address.


BTW As main itself is a method it can also be invoked from within  
BlueJ to launch a program as you would in more traditional IDEs.

Bruce




On 30/04/2006, at 9:55 AM, Bryan J. Higgs wrote:

> Frans --
>
> It's for pedagogical (teaching) reasons.  It seems that many people  
> have trouble learning Java (and other languages) by starting from a  
> purely syntactic approach (that is, starting with the study of the  
> main entry point).
>
> Take a look at the book written by the folks who wrote BlueJ  
> (http://www.bluej.org/objects-first/);  the title of the book  
> pretty much explains it.  They are trying to teach the concepts of  
> Object-Oriented languages by introducing classes and objects very  
> early on -- in fact, from the very start.
>
> For more details, I'll let the folks who implemented BlueJ and  
> wrote the book speak for themselves. They've thought a great deal  
> more about this than I have.
>
> Regards
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Frans Thamura wrote:
>> I download the tutorial, and in pag e 8 said that to execute we  
>> must right click and choose the method. in my opinion, run the  
>> code usually using main args anyone have a tips for this? why you  
>> approaceh using method? i see the different paradigm to execute  
>> java class in bluej, what is the  best way to explain about this?  
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