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Java, the good, the bad and the ugly

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Martin, Peter
Abstract	This paper describes some of the experience gained over the last two years in teaching Java to both second level undergraduates in an Object-Oriented Specialism and to first year Computing undergraduates as a first programming language, and also in the use of Java both in student project work and in the development of an industrial strength graphics application involving in excess of 100 K lines of code.These experiences have brought to light a number of good as well as bad features of the language and in addition a number of language features which whilst not bad or dangerous, form an unnecessary barrier to understanding.Finally, the paper draws some conclusions from the lessons learnt regarding the appropriateness of the choice of Java in preference to other candidates such as Smalltalk and C++ in these two domains of application.
Starting Page	34
Ending Page	39
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/278283.278288
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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