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Resources
Blackboard
Learning
Centre
Materials
on the Webs
What
Software Do I Need
Sun's
Java Software & Documentation
Recommended
Reading Material
Blackboard
On Blackboard you will have access to various
course material such as:-
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Assignment
Papers |
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Lecture Notes |
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Tutorial Exercises |
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A set of quizzes to test your
theoretical knowledge |
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Various Information Pages |
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Scheme of Work |
To access Blackboard, go to www.southwark.ac.uk/studentweb
and login using your student ID and password
Learning
Centre
Southwark College has a learning centre at each of the 4 centres
with some 65,000 books and a range of video and audio tapes, CD-ROMs, newspapers
and magazines.
All the learning centres have computers - some with access to the Internet -
and photocopiers
Materials
on the Web
What
Software Do I Need?
On this course we use
the
Java 2 SDK - a software development kit made available for free by Sun Microsystems.
The package gives you all the tools necessary for creating Java applications and
applets. This package is free. If you wish to install the software
package on your home PC you can refer to the Installing
Java page for more details.
Java Software & Documentation at Sun's Site
http://java.sun.com is the home of Sun Microsystems. You can find the Java 2 SDK
software package there and various documentation and on-line
tutorials.
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Java 2 SDK Standard Edition v 1.4.0
Software |
Sun's
Download Page
The
Java SDK
(Software Development Kit) is the software you need to develop your Java
applications.. You
should ensure you download the SDK
and not the JRE
(Java Runtime Environment.)
You
should end up with a file called
j2sdk-1_4_0_01-windows-i586.exe
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Java 2 SDK Standard Edition v 1.4.0
Documentation |
Sun's
Documentation Download Page
The Java API
documentation can be viewed on-line or downloaded from Sun Microsystems.
It
is in HTML format. Normally you place the extracted file in the
docs folder in your SDK folder
You can download
the API documentation in HTMLHelp format (recommended for a keyword
search but you cannot run the applets). Refer to Franks
site below for more info. |
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The JavaTM
Tutorial
A
practical guide for programmers
with hundreds of complete, working
examples |
Online
Tutorial
Sun provide an online tutorial which you can also download.
You can choose a browsable HTML format or winHelp format.
Alternatively you can download
the tutorial in HTMLHelp format (recommended for a keyword search but
you cannot run the applets). Refer to Franks site below
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Java 2 SDK Standard Edition v 1.4.0
Swing Tutorial |
Swing
Tutorial Download Page
The Java
Swing documentation that can be downloaded from Sun Microsystems.
It
is in HTML format.
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Other Useful Documentation
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Sun's Java 2 SDK
Documentation & Tutorials
Converted
to WinHelp or HTMLHelp format |
Frank Alliment's
has converted many of Sun's HTML tutorials and
documentation to WinHelp or HTMLHelp format. I find
these alternative formats useful.
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Recommended
Reading Material
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Just Java
1.2
Peter Van Der Linden
Prentice Hall PTR 4th edition
(1998)
ISBN: 0130105341
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The
Java(TM) Tutorial
A Short Course on the Basics (3rd Edition)
Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml
Addison-Wesley Pub Co ( 2000)
ISBN:
0201703939 |
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Thinking in Java
2nd Edition
Bruce Eckel
Prentice Hall PTR
(2000)
ISBN:
0130273635
You can also download the book in HTML format with the source code
examples from www.BruceEckel.com
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