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Conference Title: 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)

Conference Start Date: 2020, Dec. 16

Conference End Date: 2020, Dec. 18

Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

A topic of debate among Java teachers is whether to use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or a text editor paired with a command line compiler to teach introductory Java programming courses. Is it really in the student’s favor to start their programming journey using an IDE or is it better to just use any text editor to write the code and then compile and run the code using the command line? Which approach will help the students really understand the programming concepts and be able to debug their code when they have errors? In this paper we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and we compare the performance of two groups of students in which the first group used a text editor with command line commands and the other group used Eclipse IDE.

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Subject
Java;
Programming environments;
Artificial intelligence;
Students
Identifier / keyword
Computer programming; Program; Java; Text editor
Title
Learning and Teaching Undergraduate Introductory Programming Courses in Java – The Use of an IDE VS Command Line
Author
Cantrell, Gary 1 

1  Southern Utah University,Computer Science and Information Systems,Cedar City,UT,USA 
Publication title
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Conference Proceedings; Piscataway
Source details
2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)
Pages
992-997
Number of pages
6
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Place of publication
Piscataway
Country of publication
United States
Publication subject
Engineering--Electrical Engineering
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
Document type
Conference Proceedings
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2021-06-16
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
16 Jun 2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI51800.2020.00184
ProQuest document ID
2544301537
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/conference-papers-proceedings/learning-teaching-undergraduate-introductory/docview/2544301537/se-2?accountid=208611
Copyright
Copyright The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 2020
Last updated
2024-10-07
Database
ProQuest One Academic