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  This course's website has been moved to http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro/.

• Class Schedule (Presentation Material, Homework Assignments)  - These are old contents.

• Class #1 (May 25th, 2006)
• Class #2 (June 1st, 2006)
  
• Class #3 (June 8th, 2006)
• Break period (No class on June 15th, 2006)
  
• Class #4 (June 22nd, 2006)
  
• Class #5 (June 29th, 2006)
• Break period (No class on July 6th, 2006)
  
• Class #6 (July 13th, 2006)
• Class #7 (July 20th, 2006)
• Break period (No class on July 27th, 2006)
  
• Class #8 (Aug 3rd, 2006)
  
• Class #9 (Aug 10th, 2006)
• Break period (No class on Aug. 17th, 2006)
  
• Class #10 (Aug. 24th, 2006)
  

• Course Title and Description
• Course Objectives
• What it's like to take this course online?
• When will this course  be offered again?
• If I take this course again, should I resubmit all the homeworks?
  
• What are the prerequisites?
• What Software and IDE are we going to use in this course?
• Where are NetBeans related resources?
• Are there any WIndows tools that might help you to do homework's?
• Do I get a certificate if I finish all the homeworks?
• How do I know the homeworks I sent are received? Can I get some confirmation?
• Do I get any responses from instructors regarding the quality of my homework?
  
• When is the deadline for homeworks?
• Can I resubmit a homework?
  
• Would  this course prepare me for Sun Java Programmer Certificate exam?
• Can I take J2EE Programming with Passion! online course after I am done with this course?
  
• What are the ground rules for posting questions to class email alias?
• What are the suggested netiquettes for posting to the class email alias?
• Where do I send feedbacks about the course contents?
  
• Are there any other online reading materials?
• Why do I still receive emails even if I did unscribed the class alias by sending an email to javaintro1-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?
• Where do  I find the list of graduates of this course?
  

The class website is http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro1/index.html (this page).

Sang Shin (sang.shin@sun.com)
Java(tm) Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sang Shin's Biography, Sang Shin's Speech Engagement Schedule

Sean Dockery (sean@seandockery.org)
Biography of Sean Dockery

People who made contributions to this course

Course Title and Description

• Title: Java Intro 1 Programming Bootcamp
  
• Description: This bootcamp is for anyone who wants to learn Java programming for the first time.  In this course, students will learn how to write, compile, and run Java programs. They will also learn essential object oriented programming concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism. Students will write and run the Java programs using both command line tools and NetBeans IDE. Each week, students are expected to do weekly homework after studying the presentation and hands-on lab material.  There is also class group alias where students can ask questions. 
  
  

• By the end of the course, students are expected to
• Acquire a minimum knowlege to start J2EE Programming online course
  
• Students are also expected to experience the following during the course.
• Having extreme fun!
• Being passionate!
• Appreciating what you've got!
• Appreciating your fellow human beings!
• Enjoying little things in life!

• Online attendees of this course are expected to do the course work as following
  
• Read the pre-class reading material at the convenient time of their choice - the dates specified are only for the guideline
  
• Read the presentation slides (with speaker notes) at the convenient time of their choice
• Do the homework and final project - the due date of all homeworks and final project is two weeks after the final class so you have plenty of time to finish them
  
• Participate in class email alias for asking and answering questions - the top 3 people (besides Sean Dockery and myself) who answer the most questions will get some personal gifts from me like T-shirts and books and so on
• At this time, I don't have any plan (nor resource) to offer real-time webcasting.  I am looking at a possibility of creating the audio from the presentation material, however.

• It is my plan to offer this course on a regular basis maybe 2 or 3 times per year.
  
• The next session will get started 4 to 5 weeks after the previous session gets ended.  The exact date will be announced on the class alias and on this website.

• Yes.  If it is the same exercise, just resend it.
  

• Previous programming experience with other languages would be useful but not required.

• Please see Software Requirement
  

• We are going to use the following NetBeans tutorials as well
• Please also listen and see Flash demos of NetBeans 5.0
  
• NetBeans community maintains NetBeans IDE FAQ.  Please take a look at this FAQ if you experience any problems.  You can also post your questions to nbusers@netbeans.org mailing list.

• cygwin (download setup.exe and then double-click on it)
  
• Freely downloable utility programs that allows you to use most Unix commands within DOS terminal
• Examples
• grep Hello */* */*/*  (to find all references of "Hello" string among any files under */* and */*/* case-sensitive)
  
• grep -i hello */* */*/* (to find all references of "hello" string among any files under */* and */*/* case insensitive)
• diff file1.java file2.java
  
• InfoRapid search and replace utility program
• Freely downloadable utility program that lets you search and/or replace any string in a directory and its subdirectories

• If you submitted all the homeworks, you will be given a certificate.
• The certificate has no affliation with any colleges, educational institution, company.  Instead, it is just my personal recognition that you have done your share of work, thus successfully finished the course.
• You will be noted as "Graduates of the course" in the class website. You can see an example from another free online class I teach.
• http://www.javapassion.com/javaintro1/certificates/JavaIntroProgrammingGraduates.html
  
• At the end of the course, I will ask you to send me your full name in the subject line field

• If your homeworks are not bounced back, please assume I received them.  It has been working for two years with no problem.
• With the last homework, I will ask people to submit their full name, email address, and Nationality (or Country you want to represent) as described here.
  
• On Feb 29th (1 week after the 6th class), I will post the list of people who submitted all the homeworks to the "Graduates of this course".  If your name is not there somehow, I will work with you to resolve it.

• The homeworks are designed in a way that you know you have done your work or not.   In other words, you should not submit a homework unless the work is done.  If there is a vagueness in the homework description, please post it to the class alias so that it can be discussed and corrected by the instructors.
  
• Unless it is an extremely unusual case, you will not get an individual response from instructors indicating the quality of your individual homework.  This is more or less due to time constraint of the instructors.  Given that there are thousands of students taking this class, and instructors are teaching this class as their spare time activity, there is simply no way each homework can be reviewed/commented/corresponded by instructors.
  

• In general, the homework is due before the next class - this is mostly a strong recommendation not a requirement.  All homeworks are due by 2 weeks after the last class.

• Yes.
  

• In order to be ready to take Sun Certified Java Programmer Certificate test, you will have understanding in topics covered in both Java Intro 1 and Java Intro 2.
• Next time I will offer this class (Session 2), I might make it either 10-week or 12-week course, which covers both Java intro 1 and  Java intro 2 topics.  For the current session, we will be done with the #6 class.
• There are some online materials for Sun Java Programmer Certificate exam
• JavaRach Java Programmer Certification FAQ
• JavaRanch Java Programmer Certification website
• JavaRanch Java Programmer Certification Mock Exams
  
• javacertificate.com

•  If you take Java Intro 1, you will have minimally required knowledge to start J2EE programming course.  In fact, that is the reason I chose to cover only Java Intro 1 topics.
  
• By the way, you don't really need to understand most of the Java Intro 2 topics in order to start J2EE programming. For example, you will not need to understand AWT/Swing.  You will get by without that much understanding of the Java threading as long as you have basic concept of threading.  Not much need for advanced I/O and so on.
  

• When you are posting a question, please make sure you've done your share of work.  Make sure you read the relevant documentation, presenation slides, FAQ, and other postings before you post your question.
• Also please capture as much relevant  information as possible such as following 
• trace of the exception
• screen output message of the failure
• environment variable settings
• OS platform you use
  
• Even though the folks who usually answer questions (including myself and Sean) are trying to address them as speedy and as best as they can, please understand that these folks are using their spare time and resource to do these as voluntary activities.  Please also note that answering questions like "I did this and somehow it doesn't work" kind of questions are never easy to answer.  Consequently not all questions can be nor would be answered in timely manner.
• Please ask questions that are relevant to the topics of the week if possible so that we can have more focused discussions.
  
• If you find any answers to the questions, please feel free to post to the alias so that other people can benefit.
• I know sometimes you want to send technical questions directly to me (Sang Shin) and Sean Dockery but doing so is strongly discouraged due to the following reasons:
• In most cases, you will get faster responses by posting them to the class alias.  After all, that is what the community is all about. I expect members to help each other on technical questions.
  
• I personally cannot keep track of who sent what questions due to the large number of emails I have to deal with. (I am sure many of you are in the same boat.) Your questions posted on the class alias will remain there so that they can answered at a later time by someone.
  
• In general, myself and Sean are always and extremely stretched out in terms of available time I have.
  

• Please do not post a simple "Thank you" note or "Hello" message to the class alias.  This class alias is subscribed by several thousand people so please be aware that these messages are considered as noises by many people.
• Given that we are all living in "instant messaging" age, it is not unreasonable to see folks posting their messages using just lower case letters like following and I know it is perfectly acceptable in instant messaging.
• "i write this with only lower case letter i."
• But for posting messages to an email alias where more than 2000 people are subscribing, I would recommend everyone to follow a couple of guidelines if possible.
• Start a statement with a capital letter like  following.
•  "I write this with a capital letter I."
• Please do not use short-hand.
• "u are my friend." (Not recommended)
• "You are my friend." (Recommended)
• Now having said that, I know large percentage of the folks on this alias are not speaking English
  as their first language (including myself - I speak Korean at home.)  Please don't feel intimidated in posting. Less than perfect English grammar is perfectly acceptable.
  

• javaintro1-feedback@yahoogroups.com
  
• If you found mistakes/typos/errors in the course contents materials or suggestions, please use this alias to send them. 
  

• There is no designated textbook for this course.  Instead, we are going to use publicly available online materials.
• The following online materials are considered quite useful.
• The Java Tutorial from Sun Developer Network
• J2SE SDK 5.0 Javadoc
• Java Basics Tutorial by Fred Swartz
• Java Programming FAQs and Tutorials: Learning Java

• It takes up to a day for the change to take effect based on our experience.

• It can be found from "Graduates of this course".