Useful / Required Java Resources

• MSDNAA Software: Expensive but free(!) software available to currently registered students of CDM. Includes applications such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Studio, and many others. Can be found here.

• Getting Started With Java

o Link

· Installing and running Java on Macs

o java_on_mac.htm

· Compiling and running your programs using Textpad

o http://condor.depaul.edu/~rjohnson/211/running.html (Dr. Johnsonbaugh)

o One issue students sometimes run into is that Textpad simply will not show the JDK commands. The instructions are not long, but should be followed carefully and some of the steps will take a few minutes such as if they need to reinstall Java. Several students have solved their problem this way. Here is the link.

· Submitting assignments via COL

o http://www.depaul.edu/~ymendels/211/submitting_to_col.htm

• Learning Techniques

o Curve of Forgetting

· Using NetBeans to write and compile a simple program

o http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/netbeans.html

· Compiling from the command line

o http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/win32.html