Re: Teaching with NetBeans

Do let the rest of us know what you two come up with.  From some of the
nbuser emails I've seen, it looks like there's a great need for a Newbie
Edition, or at least an easy way to build one.

Vaughn Spurlin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Boudreau" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [nbedu] Teaching with NetBeans


> Ray Tayek wrote:
>
> > At 11:41 AM 6/12/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> NetBeans gives me the opportunity to maybe offer the students
> >> something they can move too when they have "graduated" out of BlueJ.
> >> We still have a lot of work to do to integrate BlueJ into the course
> >> but a few students have said they really like it and many have stuck
> >> with it.
> >
> >
> > consider starting with net beans instead. ignore the project tab. put
> > the code in a package using the default project. and just hit f9 and
> > f6. for tje second project, use the project manager to create it. but
> > again ignore the project tab (i.e. just use the filesystem tab). and
> > hit f6 and f9 a lot.
>
> One option is to turn off the Projects module - that will get rid of the
> projects tab entirely.
>
> Of course, you probably don't want your students to have to
> configure NetBeans, just use it.  There are two options:
>
>  - Preconfigure a shared version on a drive that's shared with
> all the student workstations.  After installation, delete
> projects.jar from the modules directory (you may want
> to turn off other modules to simplify the experience for
> your students)
>  - Do a custom build with only the modules you want and
> have your students download that from some shared location
>
> I've long thought we should do a NetBeans "education build"
> preconfigured with fewer bells and whistles.  You can get
> close to tha by doing a build with ant -Dmoduleconfig=slim,
> but you still have, for example, projects.  If we could agree
> on what needs to be in it, I'd be willing to make the build
> for you (off the 3.5 release trunk or whatever) and send
> it your way.  Longer term,
> I think this should be downloadable on the web site;  that
> requires a bunch of work from the folks maintaining the
> web site and build process to get automated "edu build"
> versions posted.  In the short term, it's fairly simple to
> add build targets to the build script.
>
> Does any of this sound interesting?
>
> -Tim
>