Geertjan has recommended that I make my presentation on NetBeans that I will be giving at ApacheCone available to everyone on this list for comment and suggestion. He has already made some suggestions that I have incorporated. Here is the link to a DropBox folder were you can find a pptx, odp and pdf version of the same slides.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xx2u18hti0cgfz9/AABSPXOP620d_GNR-EA7bQtPa?dl=0 Send comments to this group or directly to me at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> I don't want to bore my audience with too much background. I was thinking of downloading and running Praxis as a demo of NetBeans as a platform. I especially want suggestions for what I should be showing off about NetBeans in the 50 minutes that I have. I always like to stress Maven and easy database and server management. I also talk about the amount of technical support I need to provide to my students by pointing out the complexity in IntelliJ and Eclipse. I don't bad mouth the other tools, I just point out that in my opinion using NetBeans is more natural, especially for a developer just starting out. I am testing this last theory by allowing my students this term to use any of the three IDEs. They have never seen NetBeans before. They have used Eclipse. Slowly and a few at a time every day they are abandoning IntelliJ and Eclipse because they are getting in the way of their coding. I look forward to your comments. Also, if you haven't already done so please follow me on Twitter where I make pithy and annoying observations on programming and Java. I also want to embarrass my students by being more plugged into social media than they are. You can also follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Ken Fogel [ken_220_220] Co- Chairperson and Co-Program Coordinator Computer Science Technology Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St. W Westmount, Quebec H3Z 1A4, Canada Tel: 514-931-8731 x 4799 [twitter]<https://twitter.com/omniprof> [Dawson 50 white on blue]
