Re: Mounting filesystems and such

At 10:32 PM 7/22/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Ray Tayek wrote:
>
>>At 07:10 AM 7/15/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>>...
>>>OTOH, it's a relatively simple environment without the wealth of 
>>>professional quality features that NetBeans has....
>>
>>
>>i found net beans very strange when first fooling around with it. the 
>>trick is to ignore most of the features. no need to make projects. just 
>>add code and f9 to compile and f6 to run.
>
>Yes, this is another reason for doing the "edu build" thing would be to 
>suppress some of the
>UI that is more confusing to newbies ..
>
>Other ideas on what a stripped down NetBeans should look like?

i am fairly new to teaching, but i would lobby for not striping it down, 
just use it out of the box, sans projects maybe, just compile with f9 and 
run with f6. throw in a little ant (that will work from the command line as 
well) and you should be able to do most things.

the initial problems that someone had with classpath and package is typical 
of most peoples experience (with java). if each student has his own account 
and a directory somewhere (and if they don't just have them save the source 
tree on a floppy), just have each student mount her filesystem (say 
/home/loginName/java/root. right click on root and choose new java package 
(say project1/). right click on project1 and choose new classes. this will 
eliminate most of the package and classpath issues as well as keeping each 
students stuff in the same arrangement.

right clicking on the classes and choosing add will let you add methods, 
fields, inner classes etc,

thanks

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