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As the course develops from class to class, various updates, additions, correction, etc will be made to the web pages.
Here we keep track of most of the modifications.
Previous courses:
Recent Mods:
- January 27, 2003 - Have posted Course Materials Status and Java Tech What's New pages for the latest additions and modifications to the new web course.
Mods to old course:
- April 9, 2002 - added a new page & applet to the Physics simulation model in lecture 11B that discusses the relationship between the animation time and the physical time of a real system.
- April 18, 2001 - added
a tip about using interfaces to hold commonly needed constants: 3B
- Interfaces - Using interfaces to hold constants.
- Made new zip files holding the course pages and images.
- April 17,2001 - fixed various bad links among the course pages.
Lectures:
- Lecture 1A
- Lecture 1B
- Java Drawbacks - updated Floating point info (Fall 99)
- Java Books - new page (Fall 99)
- Lecture 2A
- Javadoc - new page (Fall 99)
- Java Console - added note (Fall 99)
- Lecture 2B
- Classes
and Objects - added line
a = new ourNewType();
in code example at bottom. (Fall 99) - Modified the Complex class example to better illustrate methods.(Jan.17.00)
- Added additional info about the final example.
- Lecture 3B
- Wrappers & String <=> Number conversions - a new page to discuss the wrapper classes for primitive types, plus a discussion of how to convert back and forth from string representations of numbers to actual number types and vice versa.(Fall 99)
- Lecture 5A
- Layouts - added a GridbagLayout example. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 6
- Re-arrange 6a and 6b and added a section at the end of section 6b about randomization in Java and in simulations. (Feb 00)
- Lecture 7A
- CustomComponents - modified the example to improve the look of the button. (Fall 99)
- Complete rewrite to give better introduction to Swing classes. Includes several examples with the plug-in. (Feb.00)
- Lecture 7B - complete rewrite to introduce Java2d with lots of examples with the plug-in. (Feb.00)
- Lecture 8A
- Simple Appletviewer - example of implementing the interfaces for an applet viewer. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 8B
- NonModal Dialog - example of a non-modal dialog that runs correctly in Netscape. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 9B
- Vector, Enumeration, & Iterator - added info about the Iterator class.(Fall 99)
- Object Class - new page describing the methods in the base class Object.(Fall 99)
- Lecture 10A
- Exclusive Thread Operations - added an image showing the output of the program. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 10B
- JAR Archives - link to Netscape's alternative way to get files from Jars. (Fall 99)
- JAR Archives - Fixed the Ex4.jar for the example. (Fall 99)
- Moved the pages about the Core Java Format and Console classes to 12B. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 11B
- Several small modifications to the code in the simulation examples. (Jan.16.00)
- Detector Interface- use an interface to allow for alternate detectors (Jan.16.00).
- Lecture 12A
- Audio - example to get audio file from the directory or from a Jar archive. (Fall 99)
- Browsers - example shows how to check on browser type to determine how to extract image file from Jar file. (Fall 99)
- Keystrokes - new page with demo to describe how to grab keystroke events. (Fall 99)
- Tools - added some info on the JDK debugger, using javaw to open a Java application without a console window. (Fall 99)
- Mouse Buttons - added a demo. (Fall 99)
- Toolkits - show an example of using the Toolkit to find the size of the screen and to place a Frame in a given position. (Fall 99)
- Lecture 12B
- Added several pages about formatted outputs and also moved the Core Java Format and Console pages from 10B to this lecture (Dec.5.99):
- DecimalFormat
- IBM's Decimal Format
- Kalamation's Precision class
- Core Java Format class
- Output to a String
- Core Java Console class and a demo
- Lecture 14A
- Http Prototcol - Added discussion and code for sending MIME header form HTTP 1.0 and higher. (Jan.18.00)
- Server Application - Added code for sending MIME header form HTTP 1.0 and higher. (Jan.18.00)
- Lecture 14B
- Running TinyHttpd - Added code for sending MIME header form HTTP 1.0 and higher. (Jan.18.00)
- Running TinyHttpdSecure - Added code for sending MIME header form HTTP 1.0 and higher. (Jan.18.00)
Other
- QandA - added some questions and answers about Java including sliders and popup menus. (Dec.5.99)
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