Media Computation book in Java

The Java book was published in April 2006. You can order the book from Pearon/Prentice Hall customer service (1-800-922-0579). The ISBN for the final published book is 0131496980. Please record any errors in the book at Errors in Java Mediacomp Book and any suggestions or comments at Comments on Java Mediacomp Book. Errors in the Solutions Manual

• We're using DrJava which you can get here http://drjava.sourceforge.net/. You will have to have the Java SDK for your platform already installed (for Windows, http://java.sun.com; for Macintosh, http://www.apple.com/java).
• You'll need to download the Java classes for doing media manipulations. Here is a 1.6+ version that has the ability to write AVI movies even without installing JMF bookClasses-3-9-10.zip. Just add bookClasses and all the jar files in the bookClasses directory to the classpath. This is the Java 1.5+ version: bookClasses-7-22-09.zip. This version has some new features as seen at New Features in 8-14-07 or later bookClasses. The Java 1.4 version is here: bookClasses-10-27-05.zip
• The book describes how to set up DrJava for media. The whole book was published in April 2006, so here we have just four sample chapters. javaMediacomp-book--9-6-05-4chaps.pdf Or here it is in a zip file: java-book-4-chapters.zip.
• You will want the images and sounds used in the book so that your students can try out the things in the book. They are here: mediasources-no-movies-7-30-06.zip and the movies are here mediasources-movies-7-30-06.zip
• Powerpoint slides for Java 1.5: MediaCompSlides-8-8-06.zip
• Older slides for Java 1.4: MediaCompSlidesJava1.zip
• Syllabus for slides http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/274
• Instructors Manual InstructorManual-IntroJava.doc
• FAQ
• List of teachers using the Media Computation approach is at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach/1
• Mailing List https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/mediacomp-teach for more information and to subscribe (or unsubscribe).
• There are some sprites (pictures with a single color background) that you can use for creating movies at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/4004
• We are working on some Alice - Media Computation exercises which would help teachers to go back and forth between Alice and Media Computation. See http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty
• Here is a document mapping the Advanced Placement Computer Science A Exam Topics to the book MapAPJavaSubsestToBook.doc
• Some materials reworked for grades 8-10 students are at http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au
• Cay Horstman has created some notes on doing image manipulations using Greenfoot at http://horstmann.com/notes/greenfoot-media.html
• Doug Blank has done some cool image manipulations with a set of MRI images. See http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/brain/
• Jennifer Murdoch has done CSI with Media Computation in Java http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~jmurdoch/edu/CSI/
• Dick Baldwin has created a series of somewhat advanced on-line tutorials starting with Lesson 340 at http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocadv.htm