Change Your World - Engage with Java

At Sun we are committed to doing things differently. Our open source philosophy drives us to create tools that help people connect and share ideas to make a difference in their world. Through the Engage with Java initiative we collaborate with universities and share innovative teaching technologies.

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Students & Education at Sun

Students

Sun, is a company that innovates, leads with actions and shares technology to drive economic and social progress worldwide, offers students the technology, tools, and opportunity to achieve success - in school, career and life.
» Learn more at Sun Student Central

Educators

Sun offers Educators grants, collaboration programs and technology resources that can help your campus improve services and technology offerings.
» Visit Programs for Educators

About Sun's Collaboration

The Java programming language is a valuable skill for today's students. Sun is excited to be collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Kent, and Deakin University to bring new and innovative tools that make learning to program fun for students everywhere.

Alice

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.
» Alice is available for free from Carnegie Mellon University at Alice.org

Greenfoot

Greenfoot is a combination of a framework for creating two-dimensional grid assignments in Java and an integrated development environment (class browser, editor, compiler, execution, etc.) suitable for novice programmers, specifically high school levels and up through advanced university courses. While Greenfoot supports the full Java programming language, it is especially useful for programming exercises that have a visual element. In Greenfoot, object visualization and object interaction are the key elements. Greenfoot is maintained by Deakin University, University of Kent and the community.
» Download Greenfoot for free at greenfoot.org

BlueJ

The BlueJ environment provides an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language that facilitates the teaching of Java to first year students and beginners. The highly interactive BlueJ environment encourages experimentation, exploration and learning through an integrated development environment (project manager, compiler, editor, debugger, etc.) BlueJ was developed as part of a university research project about teaching object-orientation to beginners and continues to be developed and maintained by Deakin Universtity, the University of Kent and the community.
» BlueJ is available free of charge at BlueJ.org

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