Stifte und Mäuse is a Java library intended to help (German) students to get
into the programming language. It is frequently used at German schools.
The original library, which you can find here
has multiple components, such as utils, an sql part, a GUI part
and some more. Every part has its own .jar-file.
The idea to rewrite it came after having worked with it for over a year as a student
and having realised how bad it actually is.
Here are some of the main issues of the original SuM-library:
- It is completely written in German, not only making its code inconsistent but also preventing accessibility.
- It makes use of bad practices all over its code.
- It violates object-oriented programming principles.
- It is outdated. The lib was written in Java 5 and 6. Much has changed since then.
The whole library is to be rewritten. Fortunately, it's not that much.
If you want to contribute, please do so.