Students learning Java can find numerous examples, as well as employment opportunities. Java is hyped. This course will make extensive use of Yale's computer networks and the Internet. Students typically will receive a response to email within a few hours. If the question and response may be of general interest to the class, the response may also be posted to the class Web page or newsgroup, which the students are encouraged to read regularly.
Students can easily try out a program from the book without having to type it in from scratch.
The standard platform for our examples will be unix machines. You all should have accounts on the pantheon. You may also use your own machine. We recommend that you all get accounts on the engineering cluster so and congregate in the garage to help each other get over the rough spots along the way. To turn in your homework you will use a homework submission program that runs on the pantheon, so make sure you now what your password and netid are for the pantheon.