Treffer: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING JAVA EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE BY COMBINING INTIGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE) AND VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (VLE).

The aim of the present study was i) to verify hypotheses integration of virtual learning environment (VLE) and integrated developing environment (IDE) and their contribution in improving the efficiency and quality in learning Java programming language (because of the enhanced graphical user interface and the "hands on approach" and user-satisfaction increased by the designed graphical user interface of the virtual learning environment along with the attention during learning that implicates improving the overall efficiency of learning programming in Java), and ii) research a new software engineering approach using e-learning indicators to develop Java Educational Software solutions. The outcome of the research is a Java interactive virtual environment that provides a code editor with intelligence support, options for running Java applications or applets and capturing and validating syntax errors by the user, integrated help required by learners in order to learn Java without requiring them to leave the application framework. This approach promotes a Java learning environment as self-sufficient to achieve its objective. The software solution developed has been used in the course of object-oriented programming and the findings and outcomes are reported here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]