Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live

theodp writes "Friday saw the launch of Rupert Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC. Taught by an AP CS high school teacher, the Java-centric course has students use the DrJava lightweight development environment for the exercises. 'If this MOOC works,' said Amplify CEO Joel Klein, 'we can think of ways to expand and support it.' Only the first week's videos are posted; course content is scheduled to be presented through March, with five weeks thereafter set aside for AP Exam prep. Might as well check it out, you may have helped pay for it — a MOOC-related Amplify job listing notes that 'This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.'"

Lesson one:

[Anonymous Coward]

public class HelloWorld {

        public static void main(String[] args) {
                System.out.println("Hello, World. Obama is a muslim.");
        }

}

Re:"Java" and "lightweight" in one sentence...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

...head explodes.

Be fair: I ordered an extra 16 GB of RAM not long ago, and the two DIMMs together only weighed maybe 50 grams.

Dwight Schultz: A-Team meets ST:Voyager

[Barryke]

Am i the only one that was hoping this to be a story about crazy ass pilot Murdock (actor Dwight Schultz) from the A-Team having built a computer laboratory/system much in the spirit of programmer Zimmerman (actor Dwight Schultz), the creator of the EMH (Emergency Medical Holographic) doctor program from Voyager?

I hope not..