i'm not saying i like it as an ide, merely as a teaching tool to understand OOP, and i say this as a first year student at canterburyn university, so i don't have too much to compare it to in honesty, though i believe it has been very useful for what it was intended for
firstly, it is ridiculous to suggest that it is in any way a good thing that, even in general terms, a software patent gets effectively stolen.
however, i am very concerned that you see BlueJ as a poor IDE- with its absence of the use of a main statement, i highly doubt it was intended for serious programming. if BlueJ was actually poor as a teaching tool, it would not be used to teach java in australia, the US and the UK in universities. i used it along with the bluej based textbook for my course as a beginner and can personally vouch for its use; its interface clearly demonstrates the relationships and mindset of object orientated programming.
therefore i find such accusations almost as offensive as microsofts patent attempt itself.
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i'm not saying i like it as an ide, merely as a teaching tool to understand OOP, and i say this as a first year student at canterburyn university, so i don't have too much to compare it to in honesty, though i believe it has been very useful for what it was intended for
firstly, it is ridiculous to suggest that it is in any way a good thing that, even in general terms, a software patent gets effectively stolen.
however, i am very concerned that you see BlueJ as a poor IDE- with its absence of the use of a main statement, i highly doubt it was intended for serious programming. if BlueJ was actually poor as a teaching tool, it would not be used to teach java in australia, the US and the UK in universities. i used it along with the bluej based textbook for my course as a beginner and can personally vouch for its use; its interface clearly demonstrates the relationships and mindset of object orientated programming.
therefore i find such accusations almost as offensive as microsofts patent attempt itself.