Easy, realistic GUIs with Java in CS1

Authors:
Ken Lambert;Martin Osborne
Affiliations:
Washington and Lee University;Western Washington University
Venue:
CCSC '00 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual consortium on Small Colleges Southeastern conference
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Instructors who use Java as a teaching language are faced with a dilemma: either use terminal I/O and miss the excitement and relevance of graphical user interfaces and event-driven programming, or use Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit and distract students from the fundamental concepts of computer science. This paper introduces a third alternative, the use of a toolkit, BreezyGUI, that enables students to develop realistic GUIs and event-driven programs easily while still focusing on traditional computer science concepts.