6.75s - Interactive Programming in Java

Summer 1998

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

News (7/1/98)

Announcing the 6.75s-98@ai.mit.edu maillist. Use the list for questions about java, or share your experiences with other members of the class. The 6.75s staff will monitor the list and try to participate actively.
The 6.75s-98 maillist is archived. We hope to update the archive on a weekly basis. You can find the archive here.
Source code for the problem sets we used over the summer are available here. Let us know if you have any problems with the distributions.

	Mon 8 June	Tue 9 June	Wed 10 June	Thu 11 June	Fri 12 June
9:00 - 9:45	Introduction/Welcome	O P E N L A B
9:45 - 10:00	B R E A K
10:00 - 11:20	From Expressions to Rules	Event-Driven Programming, Exceptions	Basic Graphics, Synchronization	Events, GUIs	Advanced Topics
11:20 - 11:40	B R E A K
11:40 - 1:00	Interfaces, Objects, and Animacies	Systems of Objects, Enumerations	Basic Networking	Interaction Patterns	Putting Things in Perspective
1:00 - 2:30	L U N C H
2:30 - 5:00	Calculator	Network Flow	Cat and Mouse	Shared Whiteboard
5:00 - 6:00	O P E N L A B
6:00 - 7:00			Reception MIT Faculty Club

We will be meeting in MIT Rooms E51-149 (Lecture) and 34-501 (Lab).

Lecturers:	Lynn Andrea Stein	las@ai.mit.edu
Lecturers:	Robert C. Duvall	rcd@cs.duke.edu
Course Staff:	Craig Henderson	craigh@ai.mit.edu
	Todd C. Parnell	tparnell@ai.mit.edu
	Mike Wessler	wessler@ai.mit.edu

Course Notes

Other Handouts

The Lab Manual

Java Links

The athena Java locker home page (useful info such as local copies of documentation).
Java API (java classes) and other documentation from Sun.
The full story, in all its gorey details, is available in the Java Language Specification.
Concurrent Programming in Java and a draft Java coding standard from Doug Lea.
Cool Java stuff from Gamelan, a Java repository.
A list of currently available Java Books, including some available on-line.

Other links

A Map of the Campus: to help you find your way around.
Menus for Local Restaurants: for your enjoyment.
The Boston Globe: online version of the city paper.
Online Dictionary of Computing : look up computing terms.
The New Hacker's Dictionary and other obscurities.

This course is a part of Lynn Andrea Stein's Rethinking CS101 project at the MIT AI Lab and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Questions or comments:

<cs101-webmaster@ai.mit.edu>

Last modified: Mon Jun 1 15:18:06 1998