Lecture Supplements

  1. Here is a link to some nice reference material on emacs. If you can print postscript, the reference card prints nicely on two sides of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. There are also html and plain text versions.
  2. In the lab we will be using the standard/free SDK from Sun Microsystems running under Solaris (UNIX). You can download a version for Windows for free from the link in the previous sentence.
  3. To run Java in the lab you will need to follow these instructions.
  4. If you are a CS/CE/EE/ISM major, you might want to check out the IEEE Student Chapter, or the ACM Student Chapter.
  5. Javadoc is a tool that contains class definitions for all of the class types that are included in standard java, including String and Math. Check it out.
  6. A few people have asked about the emacs editor I use on my laptop. It is available here.
Telephone: (831) 459-5042 / FAX: (831) 459-4829 / sbrandt@cs.ucsc.edu