EECS/CS 285

Java Minicourse - 2 credits

Fall 2002 Course Information

Instructor: Prof. Sandra L. Bartlett

• Office hours
• Phone:763-1156 (1213 EECS)
• email: bartlett@eecs.umich.edu

TA: Jared Blackburn

• Office hours: Mon. 5:45-7pm, Tues. 11:45 - 1:15, Wed. 9:45 - 11:15, Thurs. 11:45 - 1:15
  on the third floor of the Media Union, at a Sun workstation
  

Textbooks

• Java and the JDK
  • Sun's Java tutorial
  • Sun's Java 1.2 API Documentation (version on login.itd.umich.edu)
  • Sun's Java 1.3 API Documentation (available on CAEN Suns - use swselect)
  • Sun's Java 1.4 API Documentation (version available for download from Sun)

Course Related Links

• Syllabus
• Assignments

• Monster Parade
• Robocode extra credit results

Some Java Resources

• Java news groups' FAQ
• Java MIDI API

• Sun's java page - they invented it!
• Sun Java products and APIs for downloading
• JDK 1.1

• Dick Baldwin's Java Tutorials

• Digital Cat's Java Resource Center
• artima
• Java Newsletter
• JavaWorld Online Magazine
• Java Report Online Magazine
• JavaSide
• Gamelan

• Sample code - from Sun
• Sample code - Java Boutique
• Sample code - J*ava On the Brain
• Sample code - Java Applet Rating Service AppletBank
• Sample applets - Caffeine Connection
• Sample code
• Sample code - free java applets by authors from around the world
• Sample code from Bodo's Lair
• Sample code from O'Reilly's Exploring Java
• Sample code from O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell 2nd Edition
• Sample code - easy Java
  
• converting 1.0 applets to 1.1
• writing compatible programs
• Troubleshooting your Java Applets on Unix with Netscape
• Java FAQ

• Documentation for CAEN support for Java

Some Java Code Development Environments

• Borland JBuilder
• Sun Forte (free)
• Free anything development environment
• jedit (free)
• WebGain Visual Cafe
• Oracle JDeveloper
• Metrowerks CodeWarrior

Reviews of others.

Some HTML Resources

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML brought to you by the makers of Mosaic
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• HTML v3.2 Reference
• list of references
• Weblint a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML written in Perl

Advanced Java Stuff

• Various Sun Tutorials including advanced topics
• Java 2 Enterprise Edition Tutorial
• VRML and Java
• Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Wireless Toolkit 1.0.1
• Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Wireless Toolkit 1.0.2 Early Access
• Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Connected Limited Device Configuration Version 1.0.2
• Java Card 2.1.2 Development Kit
• Sun's networked object operating environment
• UI toolkit - free!
• HORB a free package that supports distributed Java programming.

• Java related news groups
  • comp.lang.java.advocacy
  • comp.lang.java.announce
  • comp.lang.java.api
  • comp.lang.java.misc
  • comp.lang.java.programmer
  • comp.lang.java.security
  • comp.lang.java.setup
  • comp.lang.java.tech
    
  • defines acronyms and terms seen in comp.lang.java.*

Some Unix Resources

• UNIX Tutorials
  
• ITD's Crea te, Copy, Rename, and Remove Unix Files & Directories
  
• ITD's List Contents and Navigate Unix Directories
  
• ITD's Freq uently Used Unix Commands
  
• CAEN's list of Unix Commands
  

Some OOP Resources

• Java and OOP.