DrJava: a lightweight pedagogic environment for Java
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Identifying and correcting Java programming errors for introductory computer science students
SIGCSE '03 Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
DrScheme: A Pedagogic Programming Environment for Scheme
PLILP '97 Proceedings of the9th International Symposium on Programming Languages: Implementations, Logics, and Programs: Including a Special Trach on Declarative Programming Languages in Education
Java IO and testing made simple
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Calculator problem and the design recipe
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Fine-grained interoperability through mirrors and contracts
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Green: a pedagogically customizable round-tripping UML class diagram Eclipse plug-in
eclipse '05 Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange
Design of class hierarchies: an introduction to OO program design
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Tools for teaching introductory programming: what works?
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Backstop: a tool for debugging runtime errors
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Exploring accessibility and visibility relationships in java
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Htdp and dmda in the battlefield: a case study in first-year programming instruction
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Functional and declarative programming in education
Rationale Behind the Design of the EduVisor Software Visualization Component
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Test-driven design for introductory OO programming
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Some methods for teaching functions first using Java
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX
Language subsetting via reflection and overloading
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
On compiler error messages: what they say and what they mean
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
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In the second-semester programming course at the University of Utah, we have observed that our students suffer unnecessarily from a mismatch between the course content and the programming environment. The course is typical, in that it exposes students to Java a little at a time. The programming environments are also typical, in that they report compilation and run-time errors in the jargon of professional programmers who use the full Java language. As a result, students rely heavily on teaching assistants to interpret error messages, and valuable classroom time is wasted on syntactic diversions.ProfessorJ is our new programming environment that remedies this problem. Like other pedagogical environments, such as BlueJ and DrJava, ProfessorJ presents the student with a simplified interface to the Java compiler and virtual machine. Unlike existing environments, ProfessorJ tailors the Java language and error messages to the students' needs. Since their needs evolve through the course, ProfessorJ offers several language levels, from Beginner Java to Full Java.