Eclipse WTP – Try, Try, Try and Nothing Else
On Tuesday(2/17) Angel Vera from IBM came to our class as a guest speaker. He showed us how to use the “Search” feature on the Plug In development platform to locate the fragment of code that was...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Locating The Code
I’m very glad that I’ve reached The Fourth Milestone set up by Jordan. Bug 256185 is about NullPointerException. Here are the steps that I took to locate the code that throws this exception. 1. A stack...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – A Quick Fix on the Bug
I was doing a quick fix on Bug 256185 during this Study Week. The fix was way too quick for me and I doubted that it could be a band-aid approach. Thus I spent quite an amount of time on coming up with...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Student Progress and Mentoring
Yesterday our WTP class met again after the Study Week. Jordan asked the students to present what they had done with the bugs and describe their difficulties as well. Jordan always gave practical...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Three “Lost” Sheep
Under Jordan’s encouragement and guidance, our WTP student group @ Seneca is gearing up. Tahereh posted her questions on the webtools newgroups on 12.03 and 22.03. She got replies from Angle Vera. Xia...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Exciting News!
The Winter semester is going to end within 2 weeks. A few weeks ago, I was wondering how much progress the students could make. I just cannot believe what has happened over this weekend. On March...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Continuity Beyond a Course
The semester has finally come to an end. It’s interesting to note that two students, Davoud and Tahereh, have created a wiki page to reflect what the whole class has accomplished over a period of 14...
View ArticleEclipse WTP Summer Student Team
Our summer class began on May 12 and the Eclispe WTP team has 5 students on board. Jordan is the mentoring professor and he is very kind to take me in as a teacher-researcher. Yesterday (June 3) I...
View ArticleEclipse WTP – Productive Student Developers
As a reflective practitioner, I have begun to ask a question: How can the Eclipse-WTP community (and the Eclipse ecosystem in general) make the process of fixing bugs more productive for...
View ArticleMy First Posting to PlanetEclipse
Thanks to David Carver and Chris Aniszczyk. I’m now blogging in order to feed my postings to PlanetEclipse. Hopefully the students will follow suit. I’m a computer scientist by training and I love...
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