CIS 210/211/212 Introduction to Computer Science

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CIS Student Organizations

• Women in Computer Science (WICS)
• Student ACM Chapter
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Microcomputer Help Via E-mail

microhelp@oregon

Stumped by a microcomputing problem (not homework)?
The Computing Center's Microcomputer Consulting and Services has established the above e-mail address to serve you. Describe your problem in as much detail as possible, and a consultant will respond within one working day.

If you have further questions, stop by the Microcomputer Consulting office (151 McKenzie Hall), or call them at 6-4412. The office is open M-F 9-5 p.m.

PC (Windows) Tools

• If you are setting up your own PC to code Java programs, you need to first install the Java 2 SDK (Software Developer's Kit). The most current version is labeled j2sdk1.5.0. The CDROM that comes with the third edition of the Lewis&Loftus book has a a version of the Java 2 SDK 1.5 that will be fine for work in the class. Or, you can download the latest and greatest version directly from Sun. Choose the Windows J2SE SDK version - you can choose to do an online or offline installation.

• TextPad is a shareware editor for Windows that makes it easy to edit, compile, and run Java in the lab. It can be found on the Duckware CDROM along with the University site license. You can also download it directly from Textpad.
Make sure you have Java installed before installing TextPad so that the Java compile and execute choices on the tools menu will be enabled.
• If you prefer a Unix like environment on a PC, the Cygwin Project is a Unix/Linux like environment for Windows. It is free and can be downloaded from the Cygwin web site. The environment includes shells (like bash), editors, and most of the Unix/Linux command line utilities.

Mac Tools

MacOS X has very good Java support; see http://developer.apple.com/java. The JBuilder environment has a good reputation, but you don't need it for this class. Codewarrior is a good commercial development environment with good student discounts (you can find it in the UO Bookstore), but you may be better off for now using just the basic, free tools.

Mac OS 9 and lower have terrible Java support. You will not be able to use Mac OS 9 or lower to do your assignments, because the Java SDK provided by Apple is an implementation of Java 1.1.8 ("Java 1"), while we will be using Java 2.

Java Resources on the Web

java.sun.com

Sun's official site for Java.

Cafe Au Lait

"The preeminent independent source of Java information on the net." Book reviews, course notes, a newsletter, etc.

Java Developer's Resources

FAQs, tutorials, etc., from the editor of Cafe Au Lait.

Java Book Reviews

Very useful reviews of current Java books, by the editor of Cafe Au Lait.

Presenting Java Information Sources

Java author John December's resources.

Online Java Tutorial

Some beginning material in hyptertext-book form.

Java API Docs, FAQs, Newsgroups, User Groups, Etc.

• New Java features in Java 1.5 over Java 1.4
• New Java library classes in Java 1.5 java.lang and java.util over Java 1.4
• JDK 1.5 API documentation. You can also download the documentation to your hard drive and add a bookmark to it in your web browser.
• The Java Language specification, HTML version. You can also download it on your hard drive for reference.
• Index to Sun Documentation on Java 2
• Comp.lang.java related newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer, comp.lang.java.setup, comp.lang.java.misc, comp.lang.java.tech, and alt.www.hotjava.

Java Periodicals Online

SunWorld Online

JavaWorld

Java Developer's Journal (JDJ) Daily

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