Lecture Supplements

Here is a link to some nice reference material on emacs. If you can print postscript, the reference card prints nicely on two sides of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. There are also html and plain text versions.
In the lab we will be using the standard/free SDK from Sun Microsystems running under Solaris (UNIX). You can download a version for Windows for free from the link in the previous sentence.
To run Java in the lab you will need to follow these instructions.
To run Java on your home computer, including the tio package required for this class follow these instructions.
Here are some links to Pair-Programming papers.
If you are looking for a simple, Java aware, editor for use on your peronal Windows machine, I think TextPad is very nice. You can try if for free. From the editor you can compile and run Java programs with a menu selection (or shortcut key stroke).
I will try and put up my notes in advance of class.
If you are a CS/CE/EE/ISM major, you might want to check out the IEEE Student Chapter, or the ACM Student Chapter.
Here here links to the log sheet in Microsoft Word Format and HTML Format (may not fit on a single page).
Here is the documentation for the cards package needed for hw8 (the video poker game). To work at home copy cards.jar onto your computer. You may need to use right click and then "Save Link As" into to save the file. Just clicking on it may give a strange error message. Once you have downloaded the file, the easiest thing is to put the file (cards.jar) in the same directory as your files, and then type the command
```
    jar xf cards.jar
```
which will extract the class files from the jar file and put then in a folder in your current directory. If you know how, you can alternatively modify your CLASSPATH environment variable to include somePath\cards.jar. Of course the backslash should be a forward slash if you are running some version of Unix. In the lab, I have placed the cards package in the same directory as tio so you don't need to do anything extra.

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