Greenfoot
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| Greenfoot | |
|---|---|
| Design by | Michael Kölling and Poul Henriksen |
| Developed by | Poul Henriksen, Michael Kölling, Davin McCall and Bruce Quig |
| Latest release | 1.4.1 |
| Preview release | 1.4.1 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Genre | Integrated development environment |
| License | Proprietary, freeware |
| Website | http://www.greenfoot.org/ |
Greenfoot is an interactive Java development environment developed primarily for educational purposes. It allows easy development of two-dimensional graphical applications, such as simulations and interactive games.
It is mainly aimed at programming education (object-oriented programming with Java) at high school and early university level.
Greenfoot allows implemention of and interaction with objects in the context of "scenarios". Scenarios can differ widely. Those included with the software download include a lunar lander game, an ants simulation, and turtle graphics. Also available are a lift simulation, Conway's game of life, and an on-screen piano.
Once objects are under development, they can interactively be placed into a Greenfoot 'world', and developers can directly interact with these objects to invoke methods.
Greenfoot is currently being developed at the University of Kent and Deakin University with support from Sun Microsystems.
Greenfoot is free. It is based on the BlueJ development environment.
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[edit] History
The Greenfoot project was initiated by Michael Kölling in 2003, and a first prototype was built by Poul Henriksen (Masters student) and Michael Kölling (supervisor) in 2003/2004.[1] From 2005 development was continued involving the other members of the BlueJ Group at the University of Kent and Deakin University.[2]
The first full release, Greenfoot version 1.0, was published on 31st May 2006, with further releases following occasionally thereafter.[3]
In May 2007, the Greenfoot project was awarded the "Duke's Choice Award" in the category "Java Technology in Education".
[edit] Current Release
As of 5 March 2008 version 1.4.1 is available, providing bug fixes to the previous 1.4.0 release. [4]
Greenfoot is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, and any recent JVM.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ P. Henriksen Masters thesis: A Direct Interaction Tool for Object-Oriented Programming Education
- ^ Greenfoot contributors
- ^ Version history
- ^ Download Greenfoot
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