EECS/CS 284 section 002

Java Minicourse

Fall 1996 Course Information

• Office hours
• Phone:936-1564 (176 ATL) 763-1156 (1213 EECS)
• email: bartlett@eecs.umich.edu

Teaching Assistant: Monal Sonecha

• Office hours: Tues, Thurs 10am - noon, Media Union on the third floor near the Suns
• email: monal@eecs.umich.edu

Class

• Lectures: Wed. 4-5:30 1940 Cooley

Textbook

• Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days by Laura Lemay and Charles L. Perkins
• Sun's Java tutorial ( alternate site )
• Sun's Java API Documentation

Course Related Links

• Students
• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Not-Necessarily-FAQ - answers to questions everyone might be interested in hearing (Frequent Asking of the Question not necessary!)
• One person's journey on the path to learning Java.

Some Java Resources

• Sun's java page - they invented it!
• Source code for built-in Java classes

• Sample code - Gamelan site for developer resources
• Sample code - Java Boutique
• Sample code - Java Applet Rating Service AppletBank
• Sample code - Sun alpha JDK applets converted to beta
• Sample code - Courtesy of Mantis Development Corporation
• Sample code - Radek Tezaur's personal collection

Some Java Code Development Environments

• Quintessential Objects, Inc Jiva
• Borland Latte
• Microsoft Jakarta
• Sun Java Workshop
• Symantec Cafe

Reviews of others.

Some HTML Resources

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML brought to you by the makers of Mosaic
• Crash Course in HTML
• list of references
• Weblint a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML written in Perl

Advanced Java Stuff

• distributed Java applications.
• Java IDL (Interface Definition Language) alpha release.
• Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) alpha release.
• Java ORB (Object Request Broker) alpha release.
• Java-to-NEO connectionalpha release.
• Sun's networked object operating environmentalpha release.
• HORB a free package that supports distributed Java programming.

Some OOP Resources

• OOP.