Wednesday March 11 INFO107
A290/A590 Intro to Java
A202/A598 Intro to Programming (II)

Minute paper for the day: 

You have two threads/strings that sort of look the same,
have almost the same thickness and length, appearance.
The one thing you know about them is that each on them
takes exactly one hour to burn from one end to the other.
But the speed is unknown, varies so it's completely
unpredictable. 

Find a way to measure 45 minutes with these two threads. 

Ways in which we will run our programs:

1. Notepad, and javac, java to compile and run

2. Dr Java

3. BlueJ

4. Unix accounts (silo) 

Java programs are made of classes. 

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59555

Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, JDK 5 Edition
by Ivor Horton Wrox Press © 2005 (1512 pages) 

http://bert.lib.indiana.edu:3847/toc.asp?bookid=11233

Introductory Track for A290/A590  Spring 2008 - Notes prepared by Adrian German
Additional references from Books24x7: Java 5: A Beginner's Tutorial by Budi Kurniawan (Brainy 2006)
and Java Programming for Engineers by Julio Sanchez and Maria P. Canton (Auerbach 2002) 

a) calculations +, /, max, strings
b) drJava, BlueJ, Point (constructor, instance method)