From: "Charles Fowler" To: Subject: [Aaccd] FW: ACM Java Task Force draft release Date: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:42 AM Anyone teaching Java might be interested in the work of this committee. They are seeking comments. Charles Fowler Gainesville College cfowler@gc.peachnet.edu ________________________________ From: SIGCSE-Announce Member Forum on behalf of Eric Roberts Sent: Thu 2/3/2005 3:49 PM To: SIGCSE-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Subject: ACM Java Task Force draft release Dear SIGCSE members and colleagues, At the SIGCSE Symposium in Norfolk in 2004, the ACM Education Board announced the formation of the ACM Java Task Force and assigned it the following charge: To review the Java language, APIs, and tools from the perspective of introductory computing education and to develop a stable collection of pedagogical resources that will make it easier to teach Java to first-year computing students without having those students overwhelmed by its complexity. The Task Force issued a request last spring to the SIGCSE community seeking feedback on the problems people have encountered in teaching Java and the solutions they have developed in response. We spent the remainder of the year (and the first month of this one) reviewing those suggestions and using them to guide the design of a small set of packages intended to simplify the use of Java in introductory courses. Although the Task Force will not complete its work until the summer, we are ready to solicit more extensive community feedback and have released our first public draft, which is available on the web at http://www.acm.org/education/jtf/ The web site includes both source and compiled versions of the proposed new packages, a gallery of demo programs, documentation trees offering both a complete description of the package and an abridged student view, and an extensive rationale document outlining the reasons for our design decisions. We hope that you will look over the materials available on that site and give us feedback. There will be a report and feedback session at SIGCSE 2005 in St. Louis, which is scheduled for 10:30am on Thursday, February 24. In the next few days, we will complete the installation of a new threaded discussion group for the Task Force recommendations. That discussion group will be available at the following web site: http://www.cs.duke.edu/phpbbjtf/ We will send a second announcement to the SIGCSE lists when that site is enabled. In the meantime, you can send mail to the Java Task Force at the following address: java-task-force@cs.stanford.edu We plan to collect feedback through March 31 and then use that feedback to guide further development of the materials prior to the final release in June. We look forward to your comments. -- Eric Roberts for the ACM Java Task Force _______________________________________________ Aaccd mailing list Aaccd@euler.gcsu.edu http://euler.gcsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/aaccd