Week 1
- Introductions and Overview
- Syllabus
- About our authors/books/libraries
- Barbara Liskov Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design
- Joshua Bloch Effective Java
- Peter Sestoft Java Precisely
- First peek at a tested, graphical, animated, interactive game (Java application): BlobWorldFun
- Live demo!
- brief code overview
- quick look at Javalib web pages
- How do we get there (and beyond) from here?
- with abstraction, specification, and object-oriented design
- by not taking precious time during the semester learning a new language
- Let’s get started!
- Lecture notes: 203-introduction.pdf
