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Useful Links

• Official Addison Wesley site for the Building Java Programs
• The authors
  • Marty Stepp
  • Stuart Reges
• Bruce Eckel's Thinking In Java (3rd Edition)
• java.sun.com, including Java Standard Edition (SE) Javadoc
• Eclipse for Java Developers
• Dr. Java
• Dr. Randy Pausch and his "Last Lecture"
• and his talk on Time Management
• Mastermind
• Game of Life Definition
• Battleship
• Example of Myers-Briggs type test
• METIP - Mathematics Experience through Image Processing
• 5 MB disk circa 1956
• Moore's Law
• Python lectures on YouTube
• Information on Postmortems in Computer Science
  • Project Postmortem
  • Specific Questions
• Project Euler - a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems
• JavaBat - for practicing Java problems
• Links from Nicole D's talk on CSS
  • CSS Resources
    • CSS Tutorial
    • CSS Zen Garden
  • CSS Editing
    • Web Developer for Firefox
    • Internet Explorer Toolbar for IE
  • HTTP Sniffers
    • Fiddler for Internet Explorer
    • Firebug for Firefox
• Playing with sorting
  • A tutorial on Insertion Sort:
  • Tutorial on Merge Sort, although I was having trouble getting it to work
  • This is a really good introduction to sort/graphical representation of sorting
  • Examples of BubbleSort, Bi-directional Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, ShakerSort, Insertion Sort, In Place Merge Sort, Heap Sort, Quick sort, and some others from University of British Columbia
  • Racing sorters for Simple Sort, Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Merge Sort and Quick Sort
  • Various other sorting algorithms including Cocktail sort and Shaker Sort, but also includes Heapsort etc
• Python
  • Python’s own IDE: IDLE, information in See , "Getting Started with Python."
  • Portable Python IDE - (it can be run from a USB drive)
  • Jython Environment for Students (JES). Jython is Python but Java underneath.
  • Course materials
  • "Ideas for multimedia programming" in Python
  • Easy Eclipse for Python (PeyDev plugin) . The total installation is here: http://easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/python.html
  • Dr. Python (doesn’t play well with threads sometimes)
• LISP
• Scheme -
• Ruby
• Flash (with Director programming)
• Programming in Alice -
• Learn GUI programming from chapter 14 and re-implement a project with a GUI.
• Possibly use NetBeansBlueJ
• Design a project using the ObjectDraw library from Williams -
• www.robochamps.com
• GameMaker -- but using the GameMaker language (for real programming).
• Project extending GridWorld (Sudoku, Battleship, etc).
• Lego Robots
• Hunt the Wombat (if I can hunt it down).
• Project Euler