posted 20 years ago
Lili, your student will get much more valuable experience if she does her exercise in a "real-world" environment like into Eclipse, as opposed to doing it as a detached, purely academic exercise.
From my personal university experience and subsequent commercial experience, I know that just about all the programming and software engineering labs (beyond the first Programming 101 or equivalent) were borderline useless in teaching real skills for commercial software development, which is never as neat and tidy as in academia.