To answer several questions from several people:
1) I thought java 1.5 wasn't there because it was not found by
emerge -s java
emerge -s jre
emerge -s blackdown
At that point I just figured it wasn't there. I'm glad to discover
I was wrong.
2) I'm not so much itching to use the features, as I am required
to teach them. But the significant ones seem to be
- Scanner class which smooths one of the major bumps for
beginning Java programmers: how to do input without learning
the whole language first.
- Autoboxing which allows a looser typing of functionally similar
entities (the primitives and their wrapper classes).
- Generics (type-safe containers) (not really an intro topic, but
I'll be teaching a second course too).
- True enum
- C-style printf, and varargs (yayyyy!)
++ kevin
- Iterator for-loop
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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