Talked to Doc V about BlueJ today

Posted on July 22nd, 2004 by Sacha Chua

Got (mildly) scolded about the use of BlueJ. My class is doing fine
(or at least I think so), but other classes are floundering because
the teachers aren’t familiar with BlueJ pedagogy.

He had a brilliant idea: next time, use a Number object for the prime
problems…

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