BlueJay

For all of you out there who want to learn how to code in Java, but don't have a lot of time. Here is something to look into. A university over in the United Kingdom put together this this program called BlueJay. Ironically that is the mascot of Creighton University...I digress. Anyways check it out http://www.bluej.org/. It is a compiler, a text editor. It integrates a decent user interface. Some of the buttons are repetitive but it allows multiple ways of doing the same thing such as building code, and executing programs. We will be using this in my intro computer science class. I will make sure to check back in and let you all know of any new features I find intriguing. I'm signing off.
Cheers.