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by jason on March 19, 2006

Anyway, I wanted to write a post about the new relationship Netbeans has with BlueJ. I've mentioned in the past in my Kids Learning to Program articles (part 1, part 2 and part 3), which I got a large number of page reads on in the past and still do today. Back then I tried the BlueJ IDE to see how easy it was to use and how useful I thought it would be to help those learning Java or object oriented programming overall. The bottom line was and still is that it is pretty cool. Programmers are presented with a UML based graphical representation that help them Visualize the classes they are building and how they relate to one another. It also shows user when they run their project what objects are instantiated and how they may interact. Again, this is neat stuff and an easy way to learn Java.
With that said I think the announcement that Netbeans and BlueJ are working together is really interesting for new programmers. Once people reached a level where they have learned all they can using BlueJ they can easy, based on the reading of the press release, start working with Netbeans on real world projects. If I'm ever responsible for mentoring someone or some group of fledgling programmers I'm going to point them to Netbeans now.
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(06/28/07 8:38am)
Personally I'd prefer the straight arrow lines to be curves instead since they are often hard to follow, but having the diagrams + capabitilies of NetBeans would be tremendous already.
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