What's wrong with HelloWorld.Java 181
prostoalex writes: "Daniel H. Steinberg posted an article on O'Reailly's OnJava.com discussing the difficulties and current problems with introductory Java in the classroom. The textbooks used in colleges are mostly the rewrites of C/C++ textbooks and thus start with HelloWorld program without really dwelling on object-oriented nature of Java and why it is important. In a nutshell, OOP even nowadays is treated as somewhat innovative concept in the classroom, mainly because of educators, who were taught C. Hence links and description of Rethinking CS101 Project."
Re:Introduce JUnit as a means of grading (Score:2, Informative)
I'm currently at Uni and we've had several large projects with automated test as part of the assesment (some using JUnit).
Last time I checked no-one writes completly bug free code, we had problems with bugs in the tests. I believe this will happen to some extent with any automated tests being used to mark an assignment.
Anyway to use something like JUnit to define tests you also need to define all the class's and public methods for the students. This may work fine for comsci101 but at any higher level assignments need to have some design flexibility.
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