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Welcome to the website for intro programming in Java - Spring 2013.

• Midterm review sessions will be Friday 3/1 starting at 5pm in Remsen 101 and Sunday 3/3 starting at 12noon in Shaffer 3. See below for posted practice tests.
• Sign-up for our on-line Q&A discussion forum on Piazza as soon as possible!

Resources for Practice & Review

• Several educators have created websites which allow you to solve practice problems with immediate feedback:
  • www.codingbat.com
  • www.buildingjavaprograms.com/practice/
• Here is an on-line Computational Fairy Tales collection that explains CS concepts with fairy tale like stories: computationaltales.blogspot.com
• Here's a website with videos to help you learn good debugging tricks: debug.csi.muohio.edu.
• Here are some practice tests and answers for your review. Keep in mind that these are just examples of what kinds of questions you might expect. Also, sample tests from prior semesters may have slightly different coverage than the current semester.

  test1 (midterm)	answers1
  midterm (alternate)	answers
  final (tests 2 & 3)	final answers
  alternate final	alternate answers
  test2 (middle of course)	answers2
  test3 (end of course)	answers3

• Review slides from prior semesters:
  • Midterm review slides (by Jai Madhok)
  • midterm review edited by Ryan
  • Final review slides (by Jai Madhok)
  • Final review Spring 2010 (by Liz Cha)

Reference Links

• Textbook Website
• Java SDK downloads (for Windows, Linux, Solaris): choose the most recent version of the Java SE JDK. You don't need NetBeans or JSEE for this course. Install this before you install jGRASP.
• Java for Macs: Macs come with a version of the JDK, but if you have an older Mac you might want to update.
• jGRASP website -- install the Java compiler first (see above).
• Java API -- description of classes and methods - you should bookmark this!