Java Evangelist, Sang Shin recently wrapped up a recent trip to a Mexican University. He was invited by ITESM, Chihuahua campus to teach JavaFX programming to their 3rd/4th year Comp. Sci. students. The event is organized as a yearly "Invite the industry expert " program. Sang noted that Mexican students are quite familiar with Java programming language and NetBeans. Sang delivered content that was mostly based on: "JavaFX programming (with Passion!)" (which is free). Sang covered all 16 JavaFX topics during his 5-day stay. The course is half lecture and half lab and the students seemed to enjoyed the technology very much. Most of them will participate in Jim Weaver's JavaFX coding challenge. Some students were quite bright enough to ask these questions:
- Does JavaFX support CSS3?
- Is there graphical tool that lets a designer/developer to set the effects (instead of manually coding)?
- When do we want to use "bind with inverse"?
- How to convert Java ME apps to JavaFX apps?
Sun Microsystems Java Evangelist Doris Chen reports: "...The 4th Silicon Valley Code Camp took place at Foothill College (Los Altos, CA) on (Oct. 3-4). Over a thousand developers attended this event and 140+ sessions were presented. I presented "
