Reading Assignments

• Monday: Section 1.12 (Slides)
• Wednesday: Sections 1.1-1.6 (Slides)
• Friday: Section 1.10 (Slides)

  NOTE: Slides are accessible only from on-campus locations.

Homework Assignments

Due: 9/9/02


1. Monday:
   1. Computing Concepts - Review Exercises: 1.16 and 1.17. Please combine your answers to these exercises so that your algorithm satisfies 1.17. Also, please follow the example from section 1.12
   2. Are all algorithms programs? Explain.
   3. Are all programs algorithms? Explain.
2. Wednesday:
   1. Computing Concepts - Review Exercise: 1.9
   2. JavaScript is an interpreted language. Therefore, an interpreter is required to execute JavaScript code. What program is the interpreter for JavaScript? Explain.
3. Friday:
   1. Computing Concepts - Review Exercise: 1.7
   2. From one point of view compiled Java programs are platform independent, from another point of view they are platform dependent. Explain these two points of view.
4. From Reading:
   1. Computing Concepts - Review Exercise: 1.5. The information required to answer this question can be found in section 1.3. Present your answer in the form of three lists of storage devices, one ordered by speed, one by cost and one by capacity.

Vocabulary

• Monday: Algorithm
  Executable
  Programming
  Terminating
  Unambiguous
  
• Wednesday: Assembly Language
  Compiled / Compiler
  CPU
  High Level Langauge
  Interpreter / Interpreted
  Machine Language
  Program
• Friday: Argument
  Byte-code
  Class Name
  Code Library
  .class File
  Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
  Method Name
  Method Call
  Method Body
  Object
  Parameter
  Platform Dependent
  Platform Independent

Lab Assignment

Due: 9/12/02


• Lab #1 - An Introduction to the Unix Operating System and Java Programming

Related Web Sites

About Java Technology

A discussion of Java technology from the Java Tutorial, including the language, compiler, and virtual machine.



A Closer Look at HelloWorld.

A page from the Java Tutorial that talks about the HelloWorld program. The links for Defining a Class, The main Method and Using Classes and Objects give a good discussion of HelloWorld that complements the discussion in the text.

Sample Code

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