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Below are some papers and presentations I have made over the past years on Java. You are welcome to look at them, but they are not intended for inclusion in other courses.

Object Orientation in Java for scientific programmers
presented at SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science, 8-11 March, Austin 2000
Powerpoint slides187KB
Word document 88KB

Concurrency in First Year
Panel presentation at SIGCSE  Technical Symposium on Computer Science, 8-11 March, Austin 2000
Powerpoint slides 157KB

Competitors to Java: Scripting Languages
Bishop J M and Hurter R, s, SA Computer Lecturers Association Annual Conference, Golden Gate, June 1999.
Word document 45K

Java as a Systems Implementation Language
to be presented at the WG2.4 Conference SI2000: Systems Implementation: Languages, Methods and Tools
Berlin, February 1998
Word document 37KB
PDF format37 KB

A philosophy of teaching Java as a first language
Poster presentation at ACM SIGCUE Conference on Integrating technology into Computer Science education Uppsala, Sweden, June 1997
Word document 44KB
PDF format 42KB

Java: twenty lessons learnt
presented at IFIP WG2.4 meeting, Estes Lodge September 1997
Zipped Powerpoint document 60KB
PDF format 194KB

A Rapid Transition to Java
Panel presentation at ACM SIGCUE Conference on Integrating technology into Computer Science education Uppsala, Sweden, June 1997
Zipped Powerpoint document 9KB
PDF format21KB