EECS/CS 285

Java Minicourse - 2 credits

Java on the Macintosh

Java in the real world

Fall 1998 Course Information

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

TA: Kurt Steinkraus

• Office hours:
  • Tues. and Thurs. 9am - noon Media Union 3rd floor on a Sun
  • Wed. and Fri. 1-4pm 1837 East Hall
• email: kurtas@umich.edu

Class

• Lectures: Mon. 3:30 - 5:30 1001 EECS

Textbooks

• Mastering Java 1.1 by Vanhelsuwe, Phillips, Hsu, Sankar, Ries, etc.
  Publisher: Sybex
• Java and the JDK
  • Sun's Java tutorial
  • Sun's Java API Documentation
  • writing compatible programs

Course Related Links

• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Students

Some Java Resources

• Sun's java page - they invented it!
• Sun Java products and APIs for downloading
• JDK 1.0.2

• O'Reilly's Java Reference Library

• Java Tutorial
• Dick Baldwin's Java Tutorials

• Digital Cat's Java Resource Center
• Java Newsletter

• Sample code - from Sun
• Sample code - Gamelan site for developer resources
• Sample code - Java Boutique
• Sample code - Java Applet Rating Service AppletBank
• Sample applets - Caffeine Connection
• Sample code Netscape Java Applets
• Sample code from Bodo's Lair
• Sample code - free java applets by authors from around the world
• Sample code from O'Reilly's Exploring Java
• Sample code from O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell 2nd Edition

• 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 Java Workshop
• Symantec Cafe
• Roaster

Reviews of others.

Some HTML Resources

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML brought to you by the makers of Mosaic
• Crash Course in HTML
• 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

• Java 1.2 Beta 4 API Specifications
• Slides from JavaOne conference
• Sun's networked object operating environmentalpha release.

• UI toolkit - free!
• HORB a free package that supports distributed Java programming.
• IFC free Internet Foundation Classes - a pure-Java windowing system built on top of the AWT

• 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 OOP Resources

• OOP.