Course Materials Index

NOTE: A lab exam will be held during the scheduled lab session on April 6. You will be given a relatively simple problem at the start of the lab exam, and will have to solve the problem in Java and submit your solution by the end of the lab period. No communication with other students will be allowed, but the exam will be an open book exam (i.e., you may bring your textbook and other print resources to the lab, and you may consult your solutions to previous lab exercises electronically on the network drive).

Programming Assignment 3 (due before midnight on Thursday, April 13) [large]

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Lecture Notes and Slides

Chapter 1: Introduction slides all-in-one

Chapter 2: Using Objects slides all-in-one

Chapter 3: Implementing Classes slides all-in-one

Chapter 4: Fundamental Data Types slides all-in-one

LogBaseTwo.java — a program to demonstrate how to calculate a base-2 logarithm from the natural logarithm calculated by Math.log() [plain]

TestRound.java — a program to demonstrate the difference between truncation and rounding of a real number to an integer. [plain]
Be sure to try this with negative numbers as well as positive reals.

Chapter 5: Programming Graphics slides all-in-one

Chapter 6: Decisions slides all-in-one

Exercises on decision structures

Chapter 7: Iteration slides all-in-one

Chapter 8: Arrays and Array Lists slides all-in-one

Chapter 9: Designing Classes slides all-in-one

Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging slides all-in-one

Chapter 11: Interfaces and Polymorphism slides all-in-one

Chapter 12: Event Handling slides all-in-one

Chapter 13: Inheritance slides all-in-one

Chapter 14: Graphical User Interfaces slides all-in-one

Chapter 15: Exception Handling slides all-in-one

Chapter 16: Files and Streams slides all-in-one

Chapter 17: Object-Oriented Design slides all-in-one

Chapter 18: Recursion slides all-in-one

Chapter 19: Sorting and Searching slides all-in-one

Chapter 22: Generic Programming slides all-in-one

Resources

Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 – select either "NetBeans IDE + JDK 5.0 Update 6" or "JDK 5.0 Update 6"

Java documentation:

JDK™ 5.0 Documentation (home page)
J2SE 5.0 API Specification — Overview

GNU Source-highlight – convert Java source code to HTML (and other markup formats) with key word highlighting

JMol applet (see Chapter 1)

Unicode home page

Java Editors and Development Environments

TextPad — a shareware Windows-only editor with integrated support for compiling and running Java programs. Due to its simplicity, this is the recommended editor for this course.

Eclipse — a free, open-source, cross-platform integrated development environment. Eclipse has many features that assist in the development of Java code, but may be daunting for a beginning programmer; I recommend that you start using it in your second year instead of this semester.

BlueJ — an interactive Java environment that emphasizes inspecting classes and objects rather than the edit - compile - run cycle.

For help on using TextPad, Eclipse, and/or BlueJ with the Java Concepts textbook, see Cay Horstmann's Java Compiler Tutorial

NetBeans — a free, open-source Java development environment by Sun.

For help on using NetBeans with the Java Concepts textbook, see Cay Horstmann's NetBeans help page

JCreator — a Windows-only Java development environment; JCreator LE ("limited edition") is available for free.

For help on using JCreator with the Java Concepts textbook, see Cay Horstmann's JCreator help page

Other Java textbooks

[Thinking in Java cover] Thinking in Java, a local copy of the HTML version of a book by Bruce Eckel which he makes available for free download, even though it is also available for sale in hardcopy (the 3rd edition was published by Prentice-Hall in 2002, ISBN: 0131002872, available through Chapters or Indigo Books and elsewhere; the 4th edition, which will include discussion of Java generics, is due out in February 2006). If you download the full book (in PDF, Word, RTF, or text format), DON'T PRINT IT ON AN AUGUSTANA PRINTER!