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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 21:49:00 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:02:53 -0400, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> Let me put something else out there. 30 hours is a short semester if we
> suppose three 1-hour classes per week. Is it even realistic to try and
> introduce any kind of GUI (Swing, JavaFX, servlets with simple HTML etc)
> in 30 hours? Perhaps console output is all you should shoot for.
>
That makes sense to me, and might even free up a little time to teach the 
use of sockets implement a simple client/server pair and/or the use of 
JDBC to access a simple database such as a simple schema supported by 
Derby. The concepts behind both suggestions are pretty straight forward, 
IMO rather more so than using a GUI.
 

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