We present empirical evidence to demonstrate that there is little or no difference between the Java Virtual Machine and the .NET Common Language Runtime, as regards the compilati...
The Java string classes, String and StringBuffer, lie at the extremes of a spectrum (immutable, reference-based and mutable, content-based). Motivated by data-intensive text appli...
JAVA’s interface construct is widely perceived as a weak surrogate for multiple inheritance. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that despite their potential for writing...
In this paper we investigate the implications of Java’s dynamic proxies for supporting open architectures to implement reusable code. Dynamic proxies are interpreted as meta-obj...
We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...