I feel like I’m in school. I’m not, but I might as well be. Here are the courses I’m taking. Wonderland 101 – After building and running Wonderland 0.5-dev3, I found some, um, rough edges definitely. No telling yet if it is mistakes I’m making or problems in the code, but most likely it is [...]
I’ve been looking forward to trying out the new Wonderland, Version 0.5 Developer Release 3, and I finally got to it yesterday. I used netbeans to check it out, and that worked first try. Building, however, failed. The complaints looked pretty basic, so I checked the system requirements and sure enough, I needed to upgrade [...]
I finished the first seven chapters of Objects First with Java, yay! It was fun. I love the approach of teaching about the objects first, just as the title says, and using the bluej environment to manipulate objects in a visual way that is familiar to anyone using computers today, much more so than the [...]
I attended the Virtual Sun User Group Webcast on Project Wonderland and Immersive Learning at Saint Paul College on the Sun Learning Exchange today, virtually of course. Most of the first presentation was stuff I already knew, but both presentations were pretty inspiring nonetheless. I’ve been a fan of Wonderland for years. A few weeks [...]
