Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE
by henkdehenker on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:01AM
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Wow, I also had to use blueJ when I had to program in Java. It felt really weird to me as there as so many better alternatives. Any chance this was at the Erasmus University?
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Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE
by black_puppydog on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:07AM
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I had the same experience, TU Dortmund in 2007, algorithms 101.
I always figured the tool was deliberately chosen because it gave just enough support to the learner (syntax highlighting and class diagrams) but didn't offer any other safety nets or convenience. Kind of just one step away from programming in notepad.exe :)
Same for me, at a local community college, around 2005
I've never heard of Erasmus. I used BlueJ to learn Java in intro to Comp Sci classes in 2010 at a small school in North Carolina.
Bath (UK) also used it in the early 2000s, I believe faculty at Kent (UK) had some kind of hand in building it too.
> I believe faculty at Kent (UK) had some kind of hand in building it too.
That's correct! Michael Kölling, one of the original authors, was a lecturer who wrote it originally. All of OOP classes were taught with BlueJ, but we were allowed to other editors, though not many did.
Yups this was at EUR (Erasmus).