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19 Sep 2006
#17031

Java Programming Made Easier for Students with New NetBeans BlueJ Edition
Freely Available Tool for Learning Object Oriented Programming

A new version of the NetBeans IDE was introduced -- the NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition. This new version is designed for beginning programmers and offers educational tools such as visualization and interaction facilities that greatly aid the learning of object-oriented concepts.
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19 Sep 2006
#17030

McNealy Discusses Open Source for Education at MIT Forum
Making Tomorrow's Researchers and Developers out of Today's Students

A recent MIT forum on education, Sun Chairman Scott McNealy encouraged others to join him in work to make better educational tools to reach more students. McNealy has been working on an educational initiative called the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC), a non-profit organization with a mission to make open-source software available to the world's kids for free.
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