JavaFX 8 and its Application in Education

The thesis as the name suggests approaches the topic of graphical framework JavaFX 8 and its potential use in education. First off it introduces the JavaFX 8 framework as a whole. It explains the basic principles and comments on various advantages, architecture and important differences in working approach compared to using Swing library. After communicating the basics of the framework JavaFX 8, thesis proceeds to convert the selected applications used in education at VŠE in effort to demonstrate previously ex-plained attributes of the framework. It starts off with a simple Zipper application, continues explaining the attributes on semester assignment Adventura and concludes with Canvas library. Work is finished by summing up all the knowledge gained through the conversion efforts. It also evaluates the level of achieved success, answers whether it is better to convert an application or simply write a new one from scratch, and explains why the programming education at VŠE should develop in this direction