SI 615

Java Minicourse

Why Take Java??

Message from a friend of a Spring 97 Java class student:
A friend of mine just told me one of his friends got a Java programming summer job for $28/hr.

Java in the News

Spring 1997 Course Information

• Office hours in 1213 EECS:
  • Mon. 2 - 5
  • Tues. 2 - 4
  • Wed. 2 - 5
  • Thurs. 2 - 4
  • by appointment
• Phone: 763-1156 (1213 EECS)
• email: bartlett@eecs.umich.edu

GSI: TBA

Class

• Lectures 615: Tues. and Thurs. 11:00 - 1pm 1200 EECS

Textbooks

• Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days by Laura Lemay and Charles L. Perkins
• Sun's Java tutorial ( alternate site )
  If these are down, try this.
• Sun's Java API Documentation

Course Related Links

• 615 Students
• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Java FAQ
• Not-Necessarily-FAQ - answers to questions everyone might be interested in hearing (Frequent Asking of the Question not necessary!)

Some Java Resources

• Sun's java page - they invented it!
• Source code for built-in Java classes
• example code for every method of every class

• 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 - Radek Tezaur's personal collection

Some Java Code Development Environments

• Quintessential Objects, Inc Diva
• Borland Latte
• Microsoft Jakarta
• 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
• list of references
• Weblint a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML written in Perl

Some UofM Computing Resources

• ITD publications
• caenweb - CAEN publications

UNIX Tutorials and References

• UNIXhelp for Users
  mirror site
• U of Edinburgh UNIXhelp for Users
• WRL: Web: UNIX

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.
• 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

Some OOP Resources

• OOP.
• Basic Principles and Concepts of Object-Orientation

Last Updated by S.L Bartlett : Tuesday May 13, 2003 at 10:28:50 EDT