java-education
Experimentation with tools that could be useful for teaching newbies.
TODO: update guiExamples
to match changes in the design. See
java-edu-2017
for example code.
Packages
-
gui
— A library on top ofjavafx
with simple interfaces for getting keyboard and mouse input and drawing shapes to a canvas. -
ask
— Very simple bindings for command-line IO. NoScanner
objects and the like. -
guiExamples
,askExamples
— Example programs usinggui
orask
, which could be written by or with the newbies during newbie education.
Building and running
Ant:
To compile:
$ ant compile
To run:
$ ant run -Dclass=<CLASS>
E.g.:
$ ant compile
$ ant run -Dclass=guiExamples.bouncing.BouncingXY
To generate JARs, first compile, and then run one of the following:
$ ant dist-ask # Creates dist/javaEducationAsk.jar
$ ant dist-gui # Creates dist/javaEducationGui.jar
$ ant dist # Creates both
Make:
To compile:
$ make
To run:
$ make run class=<CLASS>
E.g.:
$ make
$ make run class=guiExamples.bouncing.BouncingXY
To generate JARs, first compile, and then run the following:
$ make dist # Creates dist/Ask.jar and dist/Gui.jar
What's the LICENSE
about?
It's called the MIT License. We'd love for other people and teams to use this project, and the MIT License makes sure you can.