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Pedagogical power tools for teaching Java

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Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Helsinki, Finland

Pages: 156 - 159

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-207-7

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Jeff Raab	Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA
Richard Rasala	Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA
Viera K. Proulx	Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA

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

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 5, Downloads (12 Months): 24, Citation Count: 9

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ABSTRACT

We describe a Java toolkit that is designed to support the creation of powerful and extensible GUI interfaces during the first year computer science course. The goals of this toolkit are to provide:• an infrastructure for creating well designed programs that illustrates the concepts of computer science and its practical applications• an environment for learning the basic ideas of interface design and for experimenting with a variety of designs• a paradigm for building interfaces in Java that scales from individual data items to large structures, using recursively displayable container classesAdditionally, the toolkit classes themselves can be studied as examples of proper object oriented design, and of building event listeners.

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CITED BY 9

	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
	Elliot Koffman , Ursula Wolz, A simple java package for GUI-like interactivity, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.1, p.11-15, March 2001
	Viera K. Proulx , Jeff Raab , Richard Rasala, Objects from the beginning - with GUIs, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.3, September 2002
	Richard Rasala , Jeff Raab , Viera K. Proulx, The SIGCSE 2001 Maze Demonstration program, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.1, March 2002
	Viera K. Proulx , Richard Rasala , Jason Jay Rodrigues, Simple problem solving in Java: a problem set framework, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.17 n.6, p.56-70, May 2002
	Stuart Hansen , Timothy Fossum, Events not equal to GUIs, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.36 n.1, March 2004
	Scott Grissom , Hans Dulimarta, An approach to teaching object oriented design in CS2, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.20 n.1, p.106-113, October 2004
	Scott Grissom, A pedagogical framework for introducing Java I/O in CS1, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.32 n.4, p.57-59, Dec. 2000
	Michael H. Goldwasser , David Letscher, A graphics package for the first day and beyond, Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, March 04-07, 2009, Chattanooga, TN, USA