Acing Netbeans at IT-BHU
Hi All,
After making the students familiar with Solaris in the initial workshops, I focussed on Netbeans this month here at IT-BHU. Since my main focus was first and second year students who are yet to learn Java and hence use a Java IDE, I tried to make netbeans appear simple, friendly and easy to use so that it is their first and obvious choice 
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The talks that I gave on Netbeans were attended by people from other branches also like electrical and electronics. Initially, I tried to make them familiar with the basic environment by setting up a simple project, showing the code editor demo, using the debugger etc. Like everybody, I was also faced with the million dollar question of Why Netbeans and not Eclipse??? Thanx to the page provided on the educommons site, I answered it beautifully highlighting all the areas where Netbeans scores way above eclipse.
The speed problem was also addressed and I provided them with the tip given to us by gopal sir at the induction program.
Then the basic session was followed by a hands on session where I gave the students demos on Matisse GUI Builder and Plugin Module Development. A nice experience overall and hope I have been able to set good grounds for future workshops related to Netbeans!!!
Great ... nice to see some real cool work going on in CSE@ITBHU. Once the students have a good background, I think you can start working on various open source projects and make the CSE alumni proud :)
Posted by Rahul Hari on February 18, 2008 at 11:42 PM IST #
Suggestion: Since most of us didn't attend the talk, it will be great if you could summarize the reasoning behind the 'million dollar questions' that you answered or put in a URL here for that.
Moreover, I'm appalled that the situation hasn't improved even now wrt active participation from Civil Engg and other 'non-CS' branches. Any ongoing efforts/concerns about that?
Good job! :)
Posted by Sharad on March 24, 2008 at 03:34 AM IST #
@sharad
Sorry for not putting the link..here it is..Why netbeans and not eclipse??
http://itbhu_sunclub.googlegroups.com/web/netbeans_eclipse.odt?gda=EJWME0UAAABzXorL3O_V9j4qM5bIiNZHC-e_MJyo4zJcjshPT-8tnGG1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDT_OFANdXwl6MS6Fja2CW-TgfmTwoO3_yvgTNmvrSZCow
I have been trying to get active participation from non-CS branches. I send out the mails about my workshops to all the branches (CS and non- CS) but hardly any people turn up from other branches maybe becaause they think its not relevant for them.
Posted by Saloni Arya on March 29, 2008 at 09:08 AM IST #