Taming Java for the classroom

Authors:
James I. Hsia;Elspeth Simpson;Daniel Smith;Robert Cartwright
Affiliations:
Rice University, Houston TX;Rice University, Houston TX;Rice University, Houston TX;Rice University, Houston TX
Venue:
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Java is the canonical language for teaching introductory programming, but its complex syntax and abundance of constructs are difficult for beginners to learn. This paper shows how object-oriented programming in Java can be made more accessible to beginners through the use of "language levels", a hierarchy of progressively richer subsets of Java. This hierarchy is implemented as an extension of the DrJava pedagogic programming environment.