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The study also recommends the need for training of teachers on the use of the Aptus and its applications, such as Moodle.

From the results of Phase 1, a strong recommendation is made to adopt the Aptus as a technology for providing access to quality educational resources within the National University of Samoa. The findings of the trial indicated very positive perceptions of students and teachers at the university in terms of ease of use and usefulness of the Aptus within educational settings. acceptance measured by evaluating the ease of use and usefulness of the Aptus. The goals of this research were to explore the acceptance of using the Aptus to access e-resources within the context of education in Samoa, with user. The Aptus is a device that enables wireless access to valuable educational resources in the absence of electricity and the Internet. This paper describes the findings of the first trial of the Aptus device within the National University of Samoa. In addition results from this study act to inform future research and best practice relevant in the NUS programming courses. The findings shows that there was high usability indicating the feasibility of Notepad as the preferred Java Development Kit (JDK) for teaching and learning Java in the Foundation level classes. The usability of the simple open source surveyed 178 Foundation students. Consequently, this study is aimed to evaluate the usability of simple, open source tools, as alternative programming environment, to learn Java programming at the foundation level.

Students frequently struggled with learning and familiarizing themselves with the IDE used, losing focus on how to learn the logical sequence of a program, and the programming language itself. Furthermore, instructors have observed that the common denominator of failure is largely due to their difficulty to get acquainted with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used. Step 1) Open Notepad from Start menu by selecting Programs > Accessories > Notepad.In previous years, it has been identified that the high number of students failing the Foundation Computer Studies (HCS081) course at the National University of Samoa, is due to their poor performances in the programming component of the course.