[Athen] Question on JAVA and C++

[Travis Roth]

Hi, 
I'd ask the professor if an IDE is used in the class? If so that'd help. If not a specific one is recommended then the student may want to try a few. 
For Java for example, Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans... 
For C++ I'd think Microsoft Visual Studio is hard to beat. 
An IDE has many features to make things easier such as automatically laying out a template for a complex project, predicting what you may want next (like an auto-fil dropdown list you can click a name instead of typing the whole thing.) Some have snippets (or similar name) where you can save blocks of code you personally use a lot for quick copy and paste.
No IDE will  eliminate all typing but good ones are designed to make a developer's life easier. All of them will have some learning curve though to find the most efficiency-gaining features. 
Travis


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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Maria Bohn
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 11:35 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Question on JAVA and C++

Just resending the below since I did not get any responses and realize many were at the conference when I sent it – 

TIA

Maria Bohn
Senior Resource Accommodations Specialist Assistive Technology Office of Specialized Services Bergen Community College
 

On 11/14/17, 11:12 AM, "athen-list on behalf of Maria Bohn" <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu on behalf of mbohn at bergen.edu> wrote:

    I have a student who is taking computer programming courses – he’s had no problems with the basic Java but is considering taking higher level JAVA or C++ next semester. His professor said they are more labor intensive – so we are looking to see if there is any way to make this doable for him – he knows the material and can run it thru in his head but he has severe inability to perform motor tasks and constant muscle spasms (he is in a wheelchair as well) – the student communicates via a Dynnavox with eye gaze technology. Does anyone have any suggestions? Im thinking something where he can preprogram and just hit a shortcut key when he needs to use that string of code … but I d not know nearly enough about JAVA to know if anything exists like this ..?
    
    Thank You
    
    Maria Bohn
    Senior Resource Accommodations Specialist
    Assistive Technology
    Office of Specialized Services
    Bergen Community College
    
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