JavaBlue is a new Java development environment that has been designed to ease teaching Java to students in introductory programming courses. The user interface is simple and intuitive, and encourages students to think in an object-oriented way. JavaBlue handles dependencies between Java classes to eliminate unnecessary recompilation, and includes a sophisticated debugging environment to encourage component testing.

This seminar will demonstrate the JavaBlue environment, and outline the current state of development of the system.

Biography

Michael graduated with honours in Computer Science from the University of Sydney after an undegraduate career that included study at Sydney, the University of Tasmania and Harvard University. He has worked for Softway for just under three years, some of that concurrently with undergraduate study. He was part of the group that developed the first Java Virtual Machine for Solaris to include a Just-In-Time (or JIT) compiler, and has developed several large commercial Java applications. He was also involved with the development of Blue, the precursor to JavaBlue, at the University of Sydney.