NetBeans in Education

This is the home of NetBeans in Education Community. The main goal of the community is to bring together people dealing with teaching Java, Computer Science, or just interested in new ways of using the internet in the classroom.

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NetBeans IDE 7.1 is out! The NetBeans for Java SE installer is perfect for introductory Java classes. It comes in at a slim set of megabytes and only contains the basics needed to get started learning Java SE and Swing GUI programming. For classes on web applications and Java EE programming, get the full NetBeans IDE for Java installer, with bundled Tomcat and Glassfish servers.

Looking for an even simpler interface to teach total beginners? Try the NetBeans IDE BlueJ plugin.

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NetBeans in Education: News

2012/01/06:	Vrijeuniversiteit Amsterdam on NetBeans
2011/09/12:	Hanze University Groningen on NetBeans
2011/06/06:	University of Sheffield-Hallam on NetBeans
2011/05/31:	University of Glasgow on NetBeans
2011/02/24:	Fachhochschule Osnabruck on NetBeans
2010/10/18:	Bielefeld University on NetBeans
2010/06/27:	NetBeans E-commerce Tutorial
2010/05/24:	How to Take NetBeans Platform Trainings in South Africa
2010/05/20:	Attempts to Apply Communicative Language Teaching to Teaching Programming
2010/05/19:	TU Braunschweig on the NetBeans Platform
2010/04/19:	Communicative Language Teaching Applied to Teaching Programming
2010/04/12:	Bergen & iBatis on the NetBeans Platform
2010/03/15:	NetBeans Training at Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Belgrade
2010/03/11:	Bioinformatikzentrum Weihenstephan on the NetBeans Platform
2010/01/23:	Upcoming NetBeans Platform trainings
2010/01/19:	Movie: One Thing from Poznan
2010/01/17:	Panorama View of Poznan NetBeans Platform Training
2010/01/04:	Free NetBeans Platform Certified Training on Parleys.com
2009/12/10:	Southern Illinois University on the NetBeans Platform!
2009/12/10:	Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students
2009/12/08:	Swiss JUG and What We Forgot to Mention
2009/11/28:	Java EE 6 Platform on Parleys.com
2009/11/21:	Movie: One Thing from Devoxx 2009
2009/11/12:	JavaFX SDK on Parleys.com
2009/11/12:	JavaFX in Action on Parleys.com
2009/10/21:	Want to Help Translate/Publish the Next NetBeans Platform Book?
2009/09/21:	Free Introductory Materials for the NetBeans Platform
2009/05/19:	Graduate Student Projects on the NetBeans Platform
2009/??/??:	Interview: Frans Thamura (JENI Advisory Board, JEDI Indonesia)
2009/??/??:	Interview: Rom Feria, Project Leader of JEDI Program
2008/??/??:	Getting Started with the NetBeans BlueJ Plugin

Send news to: news@platform.netbeans.org

NetBeans Training Offers

Learn how to develop Java desktop applications on the world's only modular Swing application framework: Contact the NetBeans Edu team now to sign up for the NetBeans Certified Platform Training. Attend one of the scheduled training courses or ask us to deliver an in-house training.
DevelopIntelligence specializes in delivering highly-customized, project-specific NetBeans Training and Java training courses covering the use of NetBeans IDE 6.8 with Glassfish v3 and Java EE 6.

All Sun Certified offers covering Java, the NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform.

Training Materials

Feel free to use our community's training resources for teaching Java and other technologies, be it in the classroom or in your local JUG meetings!

The NetBeans E-commerce Tutorial covers the basics of Java web and EE development and teaches students how to become adept at using the IDE. It also includes a live demo and provides various project snapshots and resources that enable students to compare their work with solution code for each tutorial unit.
Free Class Materials for teaching the NetBeans Platform!
Java Passion: Online Programming Classes offer a wide selection of NetBeans-ready courses covering the Java Platform, Web 2.0 and scripting.
Free Introduction to Programming (Part 1) and Introduction to Programming (Part 2) (by the JEDI team)
Joey Shen & Liang Ye, Java instructors in China, have made Java presentations available in Chinese. Thanks Joey & Liang!
Andrei Dmitriev, a Java instructor in St. Petersburg, Russia, has made many Java presentations available in Russian. Thanks Andrei!
The Ant Output Filter Plugin allows beginners to focus on the Java application's output without the compiler messages.
Java Overview and Java SE 6 What's New [PDF Format]