Java History - How The JVM Spec Came To Be
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computer Science Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
| Media Type: |
WWW |
| Author(s): |
James Gosling |
| Description: | In this keynote from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, James Gosling discusses how his history with programming languages led to Java's creation, code as algebra, how users use a product in very unusual ways, Java as a compromise between C and scripting languages, ANDF and Virtual Machines, pointer integrity, the Java object model, gotos and multilevel breaks, primitives and optimization tricks. |
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| Keywords: | Java programming Java language history of computing |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (k) Use modern engineering tools in engineering practice |
| Use of Resource: |
Good presentation on the history of the java spec. The video is integrated with slides. Could be used as a reference for history of computing. |
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Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
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| Publication Date: | January 2010 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-keynot |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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