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Re: presentable Java features and programs

From Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: presentable Java features and programs
Date 2015-04-06 21:21 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 04/06/2015 08:56 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> 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?
>>
> They may not meet all of your criteria but I've used all of them.
> <https://www.geogebra.org/>
> <http://www.gvsig.com/>
> <http://www.artofillusion.org/>
> <http://www.cademia.de/>
> <http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/>
> <https://gate.ac.uk/>
>
<http://www.yworks.com/>

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Re: presentable Java features and programs Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-06 20:56 -0400
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