Re: AP Computer Science

• Subject: Re: AP Computer Science
• From: Michael Kölling <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:29:24 +0200

hi,

I work on Java graphics implementation for Mac OS X.

Can you please tell us how to access that Case Study? I'd love to see what's wrong.


cheers

On Aug 28, 2003, at 8:15 AM, email@hidden wrote:

Message: 5
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:04:15 -0400
Subject: AP Computer Science
From: "Todd O'Bryan" <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden

The AP Computer Science curriculum uses Java and includes a Case Study
which implements a graphical simulation of fish in an enclosed tank.

The problem is that the OS X version of Java doesn't correctly deal
with the graphics in the Case Study, so all of the high school kids who
take AP Computer Science and run the program on a Mac will, correctly
at this point, assume that Apple's Java implementation is sub-par.
That's a few thousand students who are likely to go on to major in
Computer Science in college, and will be prejudiced against Macs
because of a bad experience.

The problems have to get fixed, and they have to get fixed in Jaguar,
because schools may not be able to afford to upgrade to Panther.
Please. It's already the case that my state has adopted school
administration software that won't run on Macs, so it's likely that no
teacher will get a Mac on their desktop, because they can't take
attendance, etc., on them.

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