19 Nov 2008

Centre of Excellence
Distinguished Lecture Series: Dick Wall

On 5th December 2008, we have out next lecture in the Distinguished Lecture Series. Dick Wall will be speaking on software development, Java, and technology in general.

Dick is a professional software engineer, currently working for Navigenics, previously at Google, and an alumni of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent. He is also one of the presenters of the popular Java Posse podcasts.

The Java Posse is not only one of the best Java technology podcasts, but one of the best technology podcasts in general. If you only subscribe to one podcast - make it this one!

The lecture is open to the public - everyone welcome.

Friday, 5th December, 14:00h in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1 (MarLT1, J13 on this map)
University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

20 Nov 2008

BlueJ / Greenfoot Day 2009

The third BlueJ / Greenfoot Day will be held on 4 March 2009, in conjunction with SIGCSE 2009. The "day" is actually a half-day event on the afternoon of that day.

The BlueJ/Greenfoot Day is a half-day mini-conference for current and potential BlueJ and/or Greenfoot users. All users - experienced and beginners - should find interesting content at this event.

Read more at: BlueJ / Greenfoot Day 2009

22 Oct 2008

New Greenfoot version: 1.4.6

Greenfoot 1.4.6 has now been released. This release provides a number of bug fixes and adds translations of the interface into French, Italian and Greek.

Thanks to the translators for their contributions!

7 Oct 2008

BlueJ Version 2.5.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of BlueJ Version 2.5.0. This release brings many improvements, including support for Java ME development, support for Subversion repositories for team work, much improved unit test recording and many bug fixes.

A tutorial about Java ME development in BlueJ is available here.

Download the new version now.

5 Oct 2008

New video: Displaying text

A new tutorial video is available on the tutorial video page, named Showing text. This video gives an introduction to displaying text as part of a Greenfoot scenario.

2 Oct 2008

CodePoint 2008 - The 1st Greenfoot Coding Contest

CodePoint 2008 - the first annual Greenfoot coding contest - is about to start. In this competition, particiants can win great prizes by submitting innovative, funny, quirky, or otherwise interesting scenarios to the Greenfoot Gallery. Read more about CodePoint 2008.

19 Sep 2008

Translaters wanted

We are starting to look into translating the Greenfoot interface and its documentation into other languages. Can you help? If you speak a language other than English, and would like to donate a litte time, please have a look at our Translation Page.

13 Jul 2008

New: The Greenfoot Gallery

We are very please to announce the official opening of the Greenfoot Gallery. Scenarios can be exported directly from Greenfoot to the Gallery, where the rest of the world can then see them, learn from them, and comment.

13 Jul 2008

A short intro to Greenfoot programming

We have added a Quick Intro to Greenfoot Programming to our documentation. This is intended for people who already have a little experience with programming and want to get to know some of the basics of Greenfoot quickly.

2 Jul 2008

Greenfoot 1.4.5

This new version of Greenfoot contains numerous bugfixes and improvements. The most significant change is the new export dialogue that lets you publish scenarios to the beta version of the Greenfoot Gallery site. Complete list of new features. Download.

24 Apr 2008

WaveLab Scenario

Try out a simple physics simulation with the WaveLab. This example shows how easy it is to simulate some scientific content in Greenfoot. See an online demo, or download the scenario.

16 Apr 2008

Greenfoot and "Change Blindness"

Cay Horstmann describes using Greenfoot for an interesting psychological experiment: Investigating the phenomenon of "Change Blindness". As he writes: ... it shows that Greenfoot can do a lot more than have crabs eat sandworms :-)

22 Apr 2008

Greenfoot Scenario, labs and worksheets

Qusay H. Mahmoud from the University of Guelph has published a Greenfoot scenario he uses for his teaching: Going to the Moon. His web page contains very detailed information, including an introduction, PowerPoint slides, labs and - of course - source code. Contact him for details.

16 Apr 2008

New scenario available: Net

Here is a little new scenario called "net" to give you an idea how to simulate some physics. Source code is available.

12 Apr 2008

PCPro article with Greenfoot walkthrough

British Computing magazine PC Pro has recently published an article discussing the lack of programming in secondary schools. The third page of that article includes an easy, short walkthrough to developing a simple game with Greenfoot. Have a look!

21 Mar 2008

New tutorial video: Using mouse input

A new tutorial video is available that demonstrates how to write a scenario that reacts to mouse events (such as mouse clicks or mouse movement). Click the link to view, or right-click to download. More videos are on the tutorial video page.

21 Mar 2008

Greenfoot and Media Computation

Cay Horstmann has started bringing examples from the "media computation" approach, pioneered by Mark Guzdial, to Greenfoot. This looks like a very interesting approach, slightly different in character from many of the game-like approaches we have seen before, so have a look at his description.

14 Mar 2008

 BlueJ / Greenfoot Day at SIGCSE 2008

On 12 March 2008, the BlueJ / Greenfoot Day 2008 took place at SIGCSE 2008. The day included a series of presentations and demonstrations, and was attended by more than 80 participants.

17 Dec 2007

BlueJ version 2.2.1 released

We have released BlueJ version 2.2.1. This version of BlueJ fixes some bugs and adds minor feature improvements to the previous version 2.2, which added support for team work. Read more...

27 Mar 2007

 Greenfoot Wins Duke's Choice Award

The Greenfoot project has won the prestigous Duke's Choice Award.

Greenfoot won the award in the category 'Java Technology in Education'. It was presented to the Greenfoot team at the award ceremony at JavaOne 2007 by James Gosling.

19 Mar 2007

Distinguished Lecture Series - James Gosling

On 16th March 2007, James Gosling, creator of the Java Programmig Language, visited the Center of Excellence at the University of Kent and gave a presentation to students and staff from the Computing Laboratory and guests. Read more...