EECS/CS 398

Java Minicourse - 2 credits

Third party vendors offer Java 1.1 JDK for Mac!

Java in the News

Java in the real world

Winter 1998 Course Information

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

GSI: Ron Lue-Sang

• Office hours: 2420 EECS - Wed. 1:30-5:30 and Fri 2:30-5:30
• email: norz@engin.umich.edu

Class

• Lectures: Thurs. 2:30 - 4:30 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

• Java Tutorial

• Digital Cat's Java Tool list
• Java Newsletter

• 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 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

• 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.