[Bluej-discuss] Teaching Swing

[Axel Schmolitzky]

Gordon,

I can warmly recommend chapter 11 "Building graphical user interfaces" 
in the text book "Objects First with Java - A Practical Introduction 
Using BlueJ" by David Barnes and Michael Kölling (3rd Ed., Pearson 
Education, 2006). It is a chapter in an excellent book dedicated to 
teaching OO with BlueJ and uses a nice project (a graphics viewer). 
Michael, being one of the authors, is also one of the principal 
designers of BlueJ, so the guys know how to make the most use of BlueJ 
in a text book.

Regards,
	Axel

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> From: Gordon Royle <gordon at csse.uwa.edu.au>
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> Not strictly BlueJ question, but does anyone know any decent  
> resources for teaching basic UI construction with Swing?  Google  
> produces many examples, but mostly they are over-complicated for  
> beginners, or rely on specific IDEs or are subtly out of date (using  
> "show()" where they should use "setVisible(true)" and so on.
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> Preferably compatible with BlueJ - either exploiting BlueJ's  
> interactive object construction or at least not getting in the way of  
> it (for example, by designing the whole UI in one "main" method).
> 
> Thanks
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> Gordon
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> Associate Professor Gordon Royle
> Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
> University of Western Australia
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