[Bluej-discuss] Anyone heard of academicjava?

[Ian Utting]

Michael Kölling wrote:
> I've never heard of it. I found their web site after googling the  
> name. It does look strange that there are downloads, but no attempt  
> at describing what it is, and no indication as to who produced it.

It's produced by Lindsey Ford, who is associated with the CS department 
at the University of Exeter in the UK. Lindsey had a poster and a 
demonstration of it (or related/previous work) at ITiCSE in Leeds in '04 
that are available in the ACM Digital Library:
   http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1007996.1008103
   http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1007996.1008080

> I haven't tried it.

I had a very quick look. It seems to be a nice program execution 
visualisation and description environment. It's not clear how amenable 
it is to the generation of new lessons.

Ian.