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BlueJ

BlueJ was developed primarily as a teaching/learning tool, but is also suitable for small-scale software development. It allows students to grasp the idea of object-oriented programming. It is ideal for them to develop early creative flair without being bogged down by the exact requirements of syntax. It thereby stimulates interest and excitement in the learning process.

BlueJ was started in 1999 by Michael Kölling and John Rosenberg at Monash University, as a successor to the Blue system. Blue was an integrated system with its own programming language and environment. BlueJ implements the Blue environment design for the Java Programming Language.

BlueJ is currently being maintained by a joint team at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England – where Kölling now lectures, and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

In March 2009, the BlueJ project became free and open source software.

You can download a copy from this webpage.

This is a link to a glossary of terms relating to BlueJ