Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Making the future safe for the past: adding genericity to the Java programming language
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Programming in an Interactive Environment: the ``Lisp'' Experience
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Extreme Programming Installed
DrJava: a lightweight pedagogic environment for Java
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Production programming in the classroom
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
Using Eclipse in distant teaching of software engineering
eclipse '04 Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
An Eclipse-based course project snapshot and submission system
eclipse '04 Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
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Eclipse is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for Java1 targeted at professional software developers. However, Eclipse is poorly suited for use in introductory computing education because the complexity of its interface and the associated computing environment can overwhelm beginners. In contrast, DrJava is a friendly, highly interactive IDE targeted at teaching Java to beginners. DrJava has a simple interface consisting of a Definitions pane for entering and editing program text and an Interactions pane for evaluating arbitrary Java statements and expressions given the program in the Definitions pane. This interface frees students from the complication of defining main methods for their programs and encourages them to explore the Java language by conducting simple experiments.We have developed a plug-in for Eclipse, based largely on the existing DrJava code base, that provides an Interactions pane to Eclipse with precisely the same capabilities as the Interactions pane in DrJava, along with a simplified user interface. With this plug-in, Eclipse becomes a suitable vehicle for teaching introductory programming, enabling instructional programs to use the same IDE for all levels of the programming curriculum. In addition, it provides professional developers with a convenient mechanism for interactively evaluating arbitrary program text during program development --- a common feature of programming interfaces for functional languages like Scheme and ML.