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Class Syllabus & Schedules:

Tokyo Class Syllabus (Web)

Tokyo Class Syllabus (MS Word Format)

Osaka Class Syllabus (Web)

Osaka Class Syllabus (MS Word Format)

Useful Class Links & Files:

KickJava: Online Java API with some Code Examples

Sun: Online Java API documentation

Java Notes Section

Javadoc reference information

Online English Java Compiler

Common Compiler Errors in Java and corrections

Installing Japanese language support on English Operating Systems

Online English Dictionary for Computer Words

A Look at Java Objects

Polymorphism Handout

Eclipse Installation Information

Complete UML Overview Information

Java versus C and Procedural Programming

Introduction to Eclipse PowerPoint

Java Overview Handout

Plugins for Eclipse:

JavaSpeak Project Program:
Sounds for Eclipse

Dr. Java plugins:
Dr Java program with plugin for Eclise version 3 and up

Dr Java program with plugin for Eclise version 2.X

Dr. Java User Documentation

Using Dr. Java as a plug-in for Eclipse

Unit 1 Class Files:

Java Exception Handling Presentation

Debuggin in Java Presentation

UML Presentation

Modelling Java Classes Presentation

Unit 2 Class Files:

Unit 2.1 toString & Equals Presentation

Unit 2.2 Java Collections Presentation

Unit 3 Class Files:

Unit 3 Introduction PowerPoint

Unit 3 PowerPoint on Swing PowerPoint

Java Tutorials:

What is Java Tutorial

The basics of Java & Inheritance Tutorials

Java Exception Handling & Reader/Writer Tutorials

Java Collection Classes Tutorials

Introduction to Java Swing Tutorials

Java Advanced Swing and GUI Tutorials

In this course, you will be working with Java coding to do exception handling, code debugging, Java code development, UML (Unified Modeling Language) designing of classes and Java programs, and creating graphical user interfaces using Java Swing. You will use the open source Eclipse as the IDE (Interface Development Environment) for you coding and program debugging, which is free for download and use. Before installing Eclipse on your machine, you must have the Java SDK (Software Development Kit) installed on your machine. Instructions on how to install the SDK are located in Appendix B1 in the online maerial for SSD3. Once the SDK is properly installed and is fully functional on the clint machine, then it is possible to install Eclipse. Instructions on how to install Eclipse is located in Appendix C1 on the online SSD3 course. Once the SDK and Eclipse program have been successfully installed, another separate program Eclipse UML must be installed in order to use UML diagramming.

The course starts with learning how to use Eclipse in Unit 1. You will learn how to debug Java applications and do exception handling within Java. Use of Omondo UML plug-ins to Eclipse will also be used to model UML diagrams in the course.

In Units 2 and 3, you will write simple Java programs that can be incorporated in your web pages. In the process, you will learn and practice the following: compilation, syntax rules, variables, rudimentary object-oriented concepts (specifically classes, objects, and inheritance), data types, control structures, loops, and so on.

Each of the three units has several modules. Each module contains a homework exercise as well as both a multiple-choice quiz and a practical quiz. The course also contains three in-class exams. You can read about how to work through the quizzes, exercises, and exams in the course Help pages.

You can use Eclipse to write and create your Java code. If you may not have access or have problems using Eclipse, you may also try to use any text or program to create your HTML or Java code, but the basic editor you can use on Microsoft Window machines is Notepad. Notepad is located by going to:

**NOTE ON TAKING ONLINE ICARNEGIE EXAMS**

Unit 1,2,3 & Final Practical Exams – Students are allowed to use all of the online iCarnegie material, including their submitted files, while taking the practical exam. Use of book material Internet sites (except potential class websites posted by the instructor) cannot be used.

You will be using Eclipse to compile (create) your Java programs. If there are problems in using Eclipse, it is possible to also use DOS to compile Java file sif Java has been set up properly on the machine. The following tables provide file data to download to do the work in the supplemental handout information:

• iCarnegie Website
  
• The book used for this class is "Beginning Java Objects: From Concepts to Code" by Jacquie Barker (ISBN: 1-59059-146-1).
  
• Sun Microsystems is the company that created Java. There are very useful tutorials and other information on Java that can be found on their website
  
• Downloading of Java SDK2 Version 1.4.2 by:
  Select the J2SE v 1.4.2_04  SDK includes the JVM technology download
• English Glossary of Java words:
  http://java.sun.com/docs/glossary.html
  
• The Java Sun API (Application Programming Interface) documentation can be found at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/ . This online documentation should be used often to look up the different classes and methods you will be using with your Java programming.
  

• Information on Boolean Logic (True/False) Tables
  
• Arrays Handout
  
  

Programming Iterators using While loops in Java

A computer program is hardly clever. The real advantage with a computer is that it can perform calculations fast and accurately. These advantages are only really apparent when you program a computer to perform the same task repetitively. Such a repeated task is a "loop". While using an iterator, there are 2 forms it can take (the for-loop and the while-loop) with both having some associated java constructions.

Study this java program: Iterate1.java.

In the above file, there are two new features here: "iterators" and the "while loop". An "Iterator object" i is a special kind of object that generates a list of other objects. You can tell if there are more objects in the list by looking at the "hasNext()" method of i. If there are more elements, i.hasNext() will be "true", else it is "false". As you can see from the program, the way to get an Iterator object from a Vector object v is to apply the iterator method: i = v.iterator(). Careful with the capital letters. In java, names of "types" or "kinds" of objects always start with a capital letter, and names of methods and variables always start with a lower case letter.

The normal java for loop without Iterator:

Vector things;       // Java Collection type
for ( int i = 0 ; i < things.size() ; i++ ) {   // Notice the normal for loop has 3 parts
    // do something with things.get(i)
    // get is a method of the Vector class
}

The java while loop with Iterator takes the form:

Vector things;     // Java Collection type
Iterator i = things.iterator(); // declares a name for a Iterator Object
while (i.hasNext()) {  // Notice the while loop has 1 part, the boolean conditional
        // do something with i.next()
        // next is a method of the iterator class
}

The java for loop with Iterator takes the form:

Vector things;     // Java Collection type
for ( Iterator i = things.iterator() ; i.hasNext();) {  // Notice the for loop has 2 parts
         // do something with i.next()
         // next is a method of the iterator class
}

It is important that the Iterator classes hasNext() method returns a boolean "true" or "false". Java will execute the code "do something...." repeatedly provided the boolean test returned from the hasNext method comes out true. When the test comes out false, java skips to the next part of the program. More precisely it:

1. computes "hasNext()";
2. if "hasNext()" is false it skips the loop and all the code in "do something...";
3. else it performs the "do something...." once and goes back to step 1.

Note that the code "do something......" will be completely ignored if the test comes out false the first time. Also note that "hasNext()" is recalculated just before each time through the loop body.

Warning: the only semicolons you need in a while statement are in the "do something...." part (the loop body). You don't need a semicolon after the final } (though it wouldn't hurt) and you definitely don't want a semicolon after "while (hasNext())" - putting a semicolon here would completely mess up your while loop, and (worse) the java compiler wouldn't complain so you may not even get an inkling of a problem. Be careful!

More java program involving iteration, and while loops follow. Read them, try them out, and modify them so that you understand what each line does.

• Iterate2.java. This has a while loop inside another while loop.
• Iterate3.java. This introduces the "if" statement.
• Iterate4.java. This is a slightly more complicated example, and uses a static method.
• Iterate5.java. Slightly more complicated again, it shows how you can use static methods to help you understand and simplify "loops within loops".

• Java Swing
  
• Java GUI Button and Colors Examples
  
• Java GUI Exercise 1
  
• Java GUI Exercise 2
  
• Java GUI Exercise 3