Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jerry Stuckle Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: presentable Java features and programs Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:56:03 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 23:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5dfcaf843262377062d568c34777fa3"; logging-data="23357"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/UbDwJx1UTklT5OwlydnsLPAgh4t62MUg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:o/qyQolP7eIggbtd2gukjSy172M= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31504 On 4/6/2015 6:50 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > A Java course participant asked me near the start of the > beginner's course: »What can one do with Java? Could you > show me three Java programs?«. > > Even though I am giving Java classes for a long time, I > was not well-prepared for those questions! > > »What can one do with Java?« - A possible answer might be: > »Write Java programs.«, but possibly not what he had in > mind? What would you answer to a beginner? (He already > knew VBA.) (Well, strictly, to write Java programs, you > use an /editor/, Java [in the sense of »the JLS«] then > gives them meaning.) > > »Could you show me three Java programs?«. Well, I already > showed them the java compiler »javac« and the hello-world > program at this point. But maybe these were not the programs > he had in mind? At least, they might not be representative > (in at least two senses of the word). What programs would > you choose to show? > > In the end, when I am to show a Java program, I always show > JDiskReport, because it can be started easily and fast via > Web Start and is a really useful application, and one can > choose the L&F at runtime. > > Do you know any other Java applications that could be shown > in such a case, preferably applications that might be famous > and/or impressive and/or where one can immediately see that > they are useful and/or fun (and/or that can be downloaded > easily )and possibly (in the case of software that can be > used for free) shown/started easily? > I can think of lots of ideas I used in the courses I used to teach. But this also changes from year to year, as more apps become available. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry Stuckle jstucklex@attglobal.net ==================