The Perpetually Unfinished guides to Java(tm)

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About these Guides

It seems everything on the 'Net is either in some alpha or beta of some sort. Why can't documentation be the same :-)

Anyhow, this page might as well be called almost-but-not-quite-yet-done guides to Java. They're out of alpha, clear of pre-beta, but in beta range now. All that I plan to add is a Quiz. Just when you thought you'd escaped, test come back to haunt you.

Drop me a line at nelson@cs.ualberta.ca if you have any ideas or liked to help.

You should download the new Beta JDK for Win95, WinNT or Solaris 2.x for the following to be of any use to you. I think there are versions for IRIX, SunOS, AIX, Linux and Solaris x86. Links will be provided later when I get more information on these ports.

Here are the tar/gzipped files I promised.

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Copyrights and Trademarks

This document is copyrighted 1995 by Nelson Yu. I will allow free distribution in any medium whatsoever, as long as the copyright message at the top remains on the document and it is not modified. Parts of the tutorial are straight from Sun's documentation and therefore parts are copyrighted by Sun Microsystems.

Portions are from Sun Microsystem's tutorials on Java

HotJava(tm), Java(tm) And Duke are the sole Trademarks of Sun Microsystems

Standard Conventions used in here

Class names start with a capital and are of mixed case
(i.e class PrintAsShownOnTheScreenDialog extends PrintDialog)
When defining an object, start the instance with a lower case
(i.e ThisDialog thisDialog = new ThisDialog();)
Same applies when declaring an method or variable within a class
(i,e static int myInteger)
Constants(i.e final) preferable should be in all capital letters
(i.e PI = 3.14)
Starting and ending {} take on the C++ style rather than C's.
Limited use of a modified version hungarian notation when there are many variables and you are never sure of their type. Otherwise do not use it as it just adds more work for your fingers
(i.e n for integer, b for boolean, f for float, str(or s) for string, img for Image, etc..
```
int nSomeValue;
String strMyEmailAddress;
boolean bEnabled;
float fResult;
Image imgDisabled;
```

Other sources for HotJava/Java Information

If these guides aren't enough to satisfy your fancy for Java then the following might do
Other sources of Java Information

Lets begin the unfinished ride

Introduction to the AWT A short introduction to the AWT. Kept to a bare-minimum and many parts from the old tutorial.

AWT Tutorial - New and updated. Read the above first before gettting into this one. Otherwise the structure of tutorial is mostly done, but more applets need to be added/debugged.

JavaScript Test Page Not related to Java per se, but JavaScript should be used in areas such as HTML forms, where Java is not suitably mature enough to handle(or can't because of security reasons) at the moment.

AppletGen generates a skeleton applet for you(Win3.1 app). Lastest version is 0.8 which is usuable, but 0.9(Monday Jan 8/96) should be the 'beta' version.

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Nelson Yu
nelson@cs.ualberta.ca

Last modified: Jan 5 96