Java applications - theory and practice

The aim of this thesis is to characterize the foundational aspects of the Java programming language and the development of applications with it. As an exemplary application on which to demonstrate the findings, we will use Nand2Tetris playground, a simple education application, some of which's aspects will be analyzed within the thesis. The aim of the Nand2Tetris Playground project will be to propose and implement a graphical user interface for the first part of the Nand2Tetris computer architecture course, created by Noam Nisan, Ph.D. and Simon Schocken, Ph.D. In this part of the course, the student is tasked with assemblig all the basic boolean logic gates and several other basic parts using only NAND gates. Software for this part already exists, but can be user unfriendly, especially for a student not well versed in computer science. This is why the GUI that will be proposed and implemented will make the course more accessible even to students not very proficient in the area