Greenfoot is a new Java development environment that makes it very quick and easy to create animated graphical applications in standard Java. Creating such animations with little overhead may have a big motivational impact on learners of programming.

Greenfoot can be used in a variety of ways: as an instructional IDE at school or intro university level, as a visualization platform for agent based programs, or as a platform to develop 2-D computer games.

In this talk, I will demonstrate Greenfoot and write some Java code live on stage, to show how games can be created easily.

Greenfoot is free software, available from here.