simpleIO

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback

simpleIO: a Java package for novice interactive and graphics programming

Full text

Pdf (500 KB)

Source

Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Cracow, Poland

Pages: 139 - 142

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-087-2

Also published in ...

Authors

Ursula Wolz	Department of Computer Science, The College of New Jersey, Box 7718, Ewing, New Jersey
Elliot Koffman	Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Sponsors

SIGCUE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Uses In Education
SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 5, Downloads (12 Months): 29, Citation Count: 15

Additional Information:

abstract references cited by index terms collaborative colleagues

Tools and Actions:	Request Permissions Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/305786.305896 What is a DOI?

ABSTRACT

This paper describes how to incorporate user interactivity and graphics into a first course in computer science. Problems and alternative solutions are discussed. A Java package called simpleIO that we developed is presented. It allows novice programmers to build simple GUI -based programs while maintaining good design principles. The package includes methods for requesting data from the user including integers, reals, string and Booleans. It also supports simple menus, graphics displays and text file handling.

REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

	1	Brown, C., et. al. Introductory Computer Science, Proceedings of ACM Computer Science Conference, Indianapolis, IN, February 1993.
	2	Patrick Chan , Rosanna Lee, The Java Class Libraries Poster, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2001
	3	Elliot B. Koffman, Turbo Pascal, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1994
	4	Elliot B. Koffman , Ursula Wolz, Problem Solving with Java, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2001
	5	Elliot Koffman , Ursula Wolz, CS1 using Java language features gently, Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, p.40-43, June 27-30, 1999, Cracow, Poland
	6	Ben Shneiderman, Designing the user interface (videotape), University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD, 1987
	7	Peter van der Linden, Just Java, Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996
	8	Ursula Wolz , Daniel Domen , Michael McAuliffe, Multi-media integrated into CS 2: an interactive children's story as a unifying class project, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.29 n.3, p.103-110, Sept. 1997

CITED BY 15

	Richard Rasala , Jeff Raab , Viera K. Proulx, Java power tools: model software for teaching object-oriented design, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.1, p.297-301, March 2001
	Viera K. Proulx, Programming patterns and design patterns in the introductory computer science course, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.32 n.1, p.80-84, Mar. 2000
	Ursula Wolz , Elliot Koffman, simpleIO: a Java package for novice interactive and graphics programming, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.31 n.3, p.212, Sept. 1999
	Judith Bishop , Nigel Bishop, Object-orientation in Java for scientific programmers, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.32 n.1, p.357-361, Mar. 2000
	Elliot Koffman , Ursula Wolz, A simple java package for GUI-like interactivity, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.1, p.11-15, March 2001
	Elliot Koffman , Ursula Wolz, CS1 using Java language features gently, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.31 n.3, p.40-43, Sept. 1999
	Richard Rasala, Toolkits in first year computer science: a pedagogical imperative, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.32 n.1, p.185-191, Mar. 2000
	Jeff Raab , Richard Rasala , Viera K. Proulx, Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.32 n.3, p.156-159, Sept. 2000
	Joseph Bergin , Viera K. Proulx , Alyce Faulstich Brady , Stephen Hartley , Charles Kelemen , Frank Klassner , Amruth Kumar , Myles McNally , David Mutchler , Richard Rasala , Rocky Ross, Resources for next generation introductory CS courses: report of the ITiCSE'99 working group on resources for the next generation CS 1 course, Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education, p.101-105, June 27-30, 1999, Cracow, Poland
	Kim B. Bruce , Andrea P. Danyluk , Thomas P. Murtagh, Event-driven programming is simple enough for CS1, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.3, p.1-4, Sept. 2001
	Henrik Bærbak Christensen , Michael E. Caspersen, Frameworks in CS1: a different way of introducing event-driven programming, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.3, September 2002
	James Comer , Robert Roggio, Teaching a Java-based CS1 course in an academically-diverse environment, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.1, March 2002
	John English, Automated assessment of GUI programs using JEWL, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.36 n.3, September 2004
	Kim B. Bruce , Andrea Danyluk, Event-driven programming facilitates learning standard programming concepts, Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, October 24-28, 2004, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
	Thomas P. Murtagh, Squint: barely visible library support for CS1, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.39 n.1, March 2007