Experiences teaching data structures with Java

  • Authors:
  • Mark Allen Weiss

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper describes our experiences incorporating Java in a Data Structures course. We describe the features of Java that made for a more interesting course, the difficulties that we encountered, and compare Java to the prior languages used in this course, Ada and C++. All in all, we found Java to be a reasonable, but not overwhelming better, alternative. Our students were particularly happy with the experiment.