On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 14:59 Roger Debry wrote:
> I have students who are writing their first Java programs, and pushing
> them to GitHub.
>
Are the students all using NetBeans? If so it might be easier for you to
create and push an 'empty' NB project (just what New Java Application...
produces)
Consider using Maven-based projects (more or less the industry standard, so
why not) even for the very first Java programs, which would have as a side
effect that NetBeans would open them automatically from Git without any
additional steps.
Gj
On Friday, September 28, 2018, John McDonnell
wrote
Hi Roger,
Just tried this and your correct with how it seems to work.
I guess the problem here is that the projects don't follow a particular
format, and so NetBeans might struggle, and the wizard is an attempt to
allow you to create a project around the sources, using the Java Project
from Exist
I have students who are writing their first Java programs, and pushing them to
GitHub. I want to clone their projects so that I can grade them. I tried a
simple “Hello world” Java application as a test to make sure that all of my
instructions were accurate and that I could in fact clone a Java p