SIGCSE 2005, St. Louis, MO

Welcome to the SIGCSE 2005 workshop on

Taming Java in CS1 with Language Levels

"Corky" Cartwright, "Zung" Nguyen & Stephen Wong
Rice University

Feb. 26, 2005

Agenda:

1. Introductions  (5 min)
2. The problem with Java (10 min)
3. Brief Introduction to DrJava  (15 min)
4. Elementary Language Level 
   1. A simple example system (20 min)
5. Break (15 min)
6. Intermediate Language Level (15 min)
   1. An object-oriented framework system (80 min)
7. Advanced Language Level (10 min)
8. Wrap-up  (10 min)

Resources:

• DrJava
  • Home page: http://www.drjava.org
  • Very latest build (newer than on home page):  download page
  • Quick Start Guide
  • 2/26/05 build of DrJava
• Java 5.0 API documentation
• Rice CS1/CS2 courses:
  • Comp201
  • Comp202
• TeachJava 2004 home page

http://www.exciton.cs.rice.edu/workshops/sigcse05

copyright 2005 by Robert Cartwright, Dung Nguyen and Stephen Wong