CS 161: Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming

Instructor: Lynn Ziegler
CSCI 161 classes meet in P. Engel Hall room 238 on days 2,4,6 at 1:00. Each student also will attend 80 minute labs on days 3 and 5 at 1:00 pm in room P. Engel 212. (Be sure to talk to me as soon as possible if this lab time causes a problem.)

Textbook:    The Art and Science of Java by Eric Roberts

Course Format and Grading Policy

 Course Overview and Objectives

 Skills and Prerequisites

 Attendance Policies

 Lab Policies

 Schedule

 Lecture Notes

 Midterm Review

 Review for Lab Quiz

 Final Review

 Book Javadoc

 Sun Java Documentation

If you wish to install our software on your windows or linux machine, you will need to download three things: Sun's jdk1.5, DrJava, and the JTF library.  (The last, the JTF library, is downloaded by right-clicking here and, then, clicking on Save Link Target as.) Once you have installed these things, you should start DrJava. It will probably ask you to find tools.jar. Use the file box it will pop up to find tools.jar in the lib directory in the directory structure set up when you installed jdk1.5. You must also make sure jtf.jar is added to the class path in DrJava. Do this by clicking on Edit/Preferences and, then, click on the Add button. Find objectview.jar in the file box and click on it. Then click on Apply and OK and you are ready to go.


Lynn Ziegler, lziegler@csbsju.edu