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Re: presentable Java features and programs

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On 04/06/2015 06:50 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?
>
This fellow has a number of nice Java programs.
<http://arachnoid.com/>
including:
<http://arachnoid.com/OpticalRayTracer/>
<http://www.bioclipse.net/>
<https://github.com/iipc/openwayback>
<http://openseadragon.github.io/>

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