Re: What can NetBeans do better for educators than it does now?

"Anton Wallace" <[email protected]> Thu, 24 May 2001 11:52:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.education
Organization Hansard International Limited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a few suggestions that could make net beans more usable in a teaching environment
(these suggestion would also apply to the workplace).

I hope I haven't suggested any features that I just haven't stumbled across yet !

   * A project template would be very useful.  I find myself constantly remounting common
     / shared classes and folders for each project I set up.  Given that many teaching
     examples are brief this can be quite laborious.
   * A java decompiler so students can see how the jdk has been implemented (I currently
     have a couple of these but it would be nice to have an integrated one).
   * A tool that identifies similar / identical algorithms - to identify students poaching
     others work.

Thanks for encouraging us to participate !

Anton.