Purpose. These notes were written to fill in missing or weak topics in textbooks that I've taught from. Many pages are useful for reference, but not as an ordered tutorial. Some pages are still rough drafts, and now that I'm back to teaching Java I'm working on them a little every week and considering putting some of them into an orderly tutorial form.
Copyleft is my reaction to the restrictive copyright that most materials are published in. There is also great enthusiasm for open source software, but surprisingly little open source writing. The text of these notes is copyrighted according to the very permissive MIT License, except as otherwise noted (eg, some GPL'ed images in one case). The irony of many textbooks is that they show you code examples, but they're copyrighted! All my Java code examples are placed in the public domain.
A zipped version is available: notes-java-2005-03-26.zip [2 MB].
Enjoy, Fred Swartz
Background
Principles and practices
Summaries
Introductory Examples
Example Programs
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Language
Control Flow
Classes
IO
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Data
Algorithms
Other
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GUI
Graphics
Mouse and Keyboard |