This closely matches my experience. They might have talked about them in
class; I didn't go very often in those days I'm afraid. But none of the
exams or projects require any GUI development save one. Aaron's right
though; it's really the professor and what they are trying to accomplish
in the course that will determine how deep into GUI's the class moves.
WE4Java should be all Ric's friend needs if they do get into Swing.
Jared
On 5/29/2009 12:44 PM, Cory Samaha wrote:
Hi,
I am a computer science major and our intro classes started out in
java as well. Obviously I can't speak to the class your friend is
enrolled in but we never covered gui-based java applications. The
programs we wrote were all ran from the command line with text
output. This is how it was for both of my intro classes (problem
solving and data structures). Further, our curriculum was not
dependent on a particular ide and half the time I simply used notepad
or notepad++ to write my programs. Then I'd just use the compiler
tools that come with the java JDK (also run from the command line) to
compile my code. Our courses were more focused on how to write
classes in general and how to solve problems rather than getting mired
down in the details of a particular language and I think that's why
they opted not to cover guis. Of course the emphasis of the course
your friend is taking could be different.
If I can help with anything let me know as I have just been through
this stage of my comp sci career.
-Cory
*From:* Ricks Place [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Friday, May 29, 2009 6:46 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: New version of WE4Java in the works
Hi:
I know a student who will be taking a course in JAVA programming. Is
this script relevant to what he will need to do? I never have even
looked at JAVA so am clueless but this script has something to do with
JAVA so I thought I'd ask if it might help him.
Does it work with any particular programming environment or IDE? Or,
is it for something else related to JAVA?
Rick USA
