[Techtalk] programming for beginners

frauke kttywu at yahoo.de
Sun Apr 27 10:03:31 UTC 2008


When we started to learn a little programming at the university, we used 
blueJ to get familiar with Java. It's a very neat little IDE with a very 
intuitive interface, that shows you every object as a box and it uses 
arrows to show, how they are connected, so that you understand, how 
things interact in your program. It really helped me a lot in getting 
the basic ideas about object-oriented programming before we moved on to 
eclipse.

http:\\www.bluej.org

Frauke

Carla Schroder schrieb:
> I know this subject keeps coming up, but as I recall the answers always fall 
> into the something-with-a-text-editor category. Isn't there something visual 
> in the FOSS world for raw noobs? Back in the olden days there was Turbo Basic 
> for Windows, and that was a great little IDE for beginners. It had the 
> important fundamental features without drowning the user in excess, and then 
> you could move up to the grownup Borland IDEs easily.  Isn't there something 
> comparable in the FOSS world? Someone suggested Gambas, but I can't tell from 
> reviewing their site if it's something a noob could get into.
> 
> Carla



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