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An overview of MiniJava

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SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/364447.364525

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This paper describes the implementation of MiniJava, a teaching-oriented programming language closely based on the Java language developed by Sun Microsystems [6]. The core of the MiniJava environment is a restricted subset of the standard Java release and is designed to reduce the intimidation factor introductory students experience when they encounter a system as large as the Java environment. The paper outlines the particular restrictions and extensions that define MiniJava along with pedagogical justifications for each.

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