The New Joy of Code is a series of instructional programming videos. You will learn the principles of object-oriented programming (using Greenfoot and Stride, and eventually Java). The videos can be used for self study, or in a classroom with a teacher. … Continue reading
We (that is: Neil, Amjad and I) have worked on Stride and its frame-based editor for about four years now, and there is a lot of work in it. First, Stride was designed and released as part of Greenfoot, and … Continue reading
After concentrating on Greenfoot for some time, we have now worked on and released a significant new version of BlueJ: BlueJ version 4.0. The most exciting new feature for me is the addition of Stride. (I will say a few … Continue reading
Welcome at the new blog home! As you can see from the new site, I have recently moved to King’s College London. I will partly have a similar role here as before – as Professor of Computer Science – and … Continue reading
I was at a Dagstuhl seminar recently, about programming education, and one of the things we discussed were common misconceptions of novice programmers. One of these, reported by several seasoned programming teachers, was the difficulty in interpreting the assignment symbol in … Continue reading