http://buildingblocksjava.com JAVA tips and tutorials Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:48:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Noone ever truly writes a book alone. This tutorial relies heavily on Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's The C Programming Language, one of the alltime classics of computer language manuals. The presentations at the first Java Day in New York City were crucial to getting my understanding of Java off ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/acknowledgements/ Java has caused more excitement than any development on the Internet since Mosaic. Everyone, it seems, is talking about it. Unfortunately very few people seem to know anything about it. This tutorial is designed to change that. People are excited about Java because of what it lets ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/part-1-why-javas-cool/ As of this writing Java is not a fully developed commercial product. Versions of Java at varying stages of completion are available from Sun for Windows 95 and Windows NT for X86, Solaris 2.3 to 2.5, and MacOS 7.5. At the present time there are no versions of Java available ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/installing-java/ The Windows X86 release is a self extracting archive. You will need about six megabytes of free disk space to install the JDK. Execute the file by double-clicking on it in the File Manager or by selecting Run... from the Program Manager's File menu and typing the path to ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/windows-installation-instructions/ If you're on a shared system at a university or an Internet service provider, there's a good chance Java is already installed. Ask your local support staff how to access it. Otherwise follow these instructions. The Unix release is a compressed tar file. You will need about nine megabytes of disk ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/unix-installation-instructions/ Unix Instructions Start the Applet Viewer by doing the following: Open a command line prompt, and cd to one of the directories in /usr/local/java/demo, for example % cd /usr/local/java/demo/TicTacToe Run the appletviewer on the html file: % appletviewer example1.html Play Tic-Tac-Toe! The algorithm was deliberately broken so it is possible ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/running-your-first-applet/ Netscape 3.0 will run Java applets on most platforms except Windows 3.1. Netscape has a Java Demo Page with links to various applets that will mostly run. However do not be surprised if an applet fails to work properly in Netscape. http://buildingblocksjava.com/applets-in-netscape/ At least since the first edition of Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language it's been customary to begin programming tutorials and classes with the "Hello World" program, a program that prints the string "Hello World" to the display. Being heavily influenced by Kernighan and Ritchie ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/hello-world-the-application/ Hello World is very close to the simplest program imaginable. Nonetheless there's quite a lot going on in it. Let's investigate it, line by line. For now the initial class statement may be thought of as defining the program name, in this case HelloWorld. The compiler actually got the name ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/examining-hello-world/ Let's investigate the Hello World program a little more closely. In Java a source code file is broken up into parts separated by opening and closing braces, i.e. the { and } characters. Everything between { and } is a block and exists more or less independently of ... http://buildingblocksjava.com/braces-and-blocks/