General Announcements

• Welcome to SE 450!!!
• We will use the message board that is part of Course Online to post messages and questions. If you have a question that you do not want to ask to the group, please email it to me. Otherwise, please post all questions to the message board. This will be a good way for everyone to benefit from other people's questions.

Syllabus

Grades

Lecture Notes

• Week 1
  • examples: array stack, linked list stack, examples from text (see schedule for links)
• Week 2
  • examples: = = vs equals(), applet lifecycle, digital clock, Blinking Text
• Week 3
  • examples: Polymorphism example, Interface example
• Week 4
  • examples: Enhanced Digital Clock, AnimationApplet, Scrolling Banner, Scrolling Banner2, Bouncing Ball, Simple Scrolling Applet, Copy Text Applet, Flow Layout, Grid Layout, BorderLayout, Nested panels, Nested panels with events, Nested panels with inner classes, Nested panels with anonymous classes, Fun with Swing Demo
• Week 7
  • examples: New and Improved Bouncing Ball applet, Function Plotter example, Count words, Count words and sort by alphabetical order of word, Count words and sort by reverse alphabetical order of the word, Count words and sort by frequency of word
• Week 8
  • examples: Function Plotter example using a factory, Readingand writingmatrices using streams, Readingand writingmatrices using filtered streams, Readingand writingmatrices using buffered streams, Readingand writingmatrices using character streams, Thread creation using a subclass of Threadand a class that implements Runnable, a queue that is not thread safeand a queue that is thread safe, a guarded queue
• Week 9
  • examples: Reading from URLs, Echo Server, Echo Client, Multi threaded Echo Server, Broadcast Echo Server, Hello World via RMI (hopefully this works)

Web Resources

• Courses on Line Site
• Java
  • Sun Java2 Development Kit (JDK) Version 1.3
  • Sun Java2 Reference Home Page - Version 1.3
  • Sun Java2 API Reference - Version 1.3
  • The Java Tutorial
  • The JFC Swing Tutorial
  • JavaWorld Web Site - a good place to keep up on the latest happenings in Java
  • The Alphaworks project at IBM - See some of the new technologies the guys at IMB are writing for future incorporation into products.
  • Apache.org - an attempt to make commercial quality software available for free. It is an open source initiative.
  • The Java Plugin Homepage
  • The Java Plugin HTML converter
• Free (or almost free) Java IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)
  • I can't guarantee support on any of these.  You're pretty much on your own.
  • JCreatorThe IDE that I use at home.
  • Forte for Java (Community Edition)  - Personal favorite but don't try to run it unless you've got a pretty beefy machine.
  • JBuilder (Foundation Edition) - I've never used it but I've heard good things about it.
• HTML
  • NCSA's HTML Primer
  • More on HTML
• Free Web Space
  • There will be no support for the following.  You're pretty much on your own.
  • Brinkster.com
• UNIX
  • Some notes about Unix (for shrike/students.depaul.edu)
• Design Patterns
  • A good design pattern web site.
• Software Engineering Symposium, Spring 2000/2001
  • Details

Homework

• Submission Instructions
• Homework #1
  • Assigned Sept 18.
  • You do not have to hand in this homework.  It is just to get you familiar with the Java development environment.
• Homework #2
  • Assigned Sept 25.
  • Due Oct 2.
  • Solution
• Homework #3
  • Assigned Oct 2.
  • Due Oct 16.
  • Solution
• Homework #4
  • Assigned Oct 23.
  • Due Nov 6.
  • Solution
• Homework #5
  • Assigned Nov 6.
  • Due Nov 20.

Exam Study Guides

• Midterm - October 16th
  • Source for GUI
• Final Exam - November 20th

Tentative Schedule
Note: This is subject to change during the quarter.
Click on the chapter number for examples from the text.