A Java Course Outline
Using the Java By Dissection book
by Ira Pohl and Charlie McDowell

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This website is intended as a broad outline for teaching from Java by Dissection by Pohl and McDowell. These webpages were originally used by Ira Pohl in his Introduction to Programming course with Java as the teaching language. The first three chapters of Java by Dissection are available for free in eMatter form as Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and source code for the book is also available. Source code and further information for the tio package is also available.

Charlie McDowell has also taught the course. His notes are available at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~charlie/book/notes/.

Course Syllabus

1. Introductory remarks what is a Java program
2. Program Fundamentals
3. Statements and Control Flow
4. Methods
5. More Methods
6. Objects
7. More Objects
8. Java applets
9. Arrays
10. More array applications

The following programs are recommended for in-class discussion

• Circle.java
• Max.java
• Pythygorean.java

The book makes extensive use of a package it calls tio. Here is the code:

• Console.java
• FormattedWriter.java
• PrintFileWriter.java
• ReadException.java
• ReadInput.java

The java source code for Java by Dissection is also available.

Homework Problems

These assignments were given during the ten week course. Solutions shown here are those deemed best by the TA in the course. General information for compiling and running programs on Unix, Windows, and Mac systems is available.

Students taking computer courses at UCSC are given access to sites which instruct them on the use of the web, e-mail, and newsgroups, general FAQs about the use of the computers on campus, and lab information for using Java in the computer labs.

• Homework 1 - Simple Output
• Homework 2 - Fahrenheit and Centigrade
• Solution for Fahrenheit
• Homework 3 - Roots of an Equation
  • Easy solution of Roots
  • Bisection solution of Roots
• Homework 4 - Random Numbers in CoinToss
  • Solution for Coin Toss
• Homework 5 - Signs of the Zodiac
  • Solution for Zodiac
• Homework 6 - The Sieve of Erastophenes
• Homework 7 - Array Programming and Statistics

• Exam 1
• Exam 2
• Final
• Charlie McDowell's sample exams

Sites of Interest

• Sun's main Java site. This site has all of the free JDK tools, as well as some tutorials for more advanced programming. This will be one link that you will want to keep coming back to well after you are finished with this class.
  
• Inprise/Borland site Creators of JBuilder, a nice little development environment for Java on Windows. Want to try it out? Come ask Doug.
• Symantec visual Cafe web site A link to the development environment we will probably be using.
• Codewarrior's main site: Codewarrior is a good alternative to Visual Cafe for Windows and Macintosh. The bookstore will have the academic version of this for cheap very soon now.
• IBM's Visual Age for Java site
• Sun's JDK 1.1 site the place to get the JDK for your machine
• Apple's Java dev site for the Mac faithful
• Apple's intro to Java on the Mac page useful for learning more about Java and the Mac (check out the student developer connection, it gives you a free Codewarrior for Java CD when you purchase a student developer account)
• Sun's official Java 1.1 API documentation go here when you have questions about specific classes or methods
• UCSC General Lab and Computer Use Information go here to get information on editing, compiling, use of computing resources for UCSC for Java

Webmaster

The original Webmaster for this site, Doug Whitmore, put in a great deal of much appreciated work on the initial design and content of these pages based on Professor Pohl's course. He is responsible for many of the fine Java examples, apt remarks, and careful observations throughout the website.