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• Why Java?
  • Language design
    • The Java programming language provides a very clean implementation of most of the important object-oriented concepts, and serves well as an introductory teaching language.
  • Popularity
    • Its popularity ensures an immense pool of support resources.
    • The large amount and good quality of support material makes Java an excellent choice as an introduction to object-oriented programming.

• A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide
• Created by University of Kent
• Supported by Oracle
• "One of my favourite IDEs out there is BlueJ"
  • James Gosling, creator of Java.

Download Bluej

• Why Bluej?
  • The user interface is much simpler
  • The environment supports important teaching tools not available in other environments
  • Users can directly create objects of any class, and then to interact with their methods

• Why Eclipse?
  • Eclipse provides IDEs and platforms for nearly every language and architecture
  • Eclipse is written mostly in Java and its primary use is for developing Java applications
• Developer: Eclipse Foundation
• Initial release 1.0 / 7 November 2001
• Stable release 4.6.2 (Neon.2) / 24 November 2016

Download Eclipse

• Slides http://www.ce.unipr.it/~aferrari/OOP/
  • from book "Object First with Java"
• Email: aferrari@ce.unipr.it

David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling

Objects First with Java
A Practical Introduction using BlueJ

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Object First with Java

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