Instructor

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Instructor

• Mu Xia /moo shia/
• Chinese
• Call me one of the following
• Mu
• Prof. Xia
• PLEASE dont call me Prof. Mu

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Course Overview

• Objective of this course
• Prepare students with programming knowledge and
  skills
• Previous programming experience not required
• Languages covered
• In-depth Java
• Brief introduction C, C

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Textbook

• Java Fundamentals of JavaIntroductory Course
  (2nd Ed)
• Publisher Course Technology
• Authors Lambert and Osborne
• Student files can be downloaded from web site.
• C and C Handouts

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Programming Software

• Microsoft Visual J 6.0
• Part of VisualStudio 6.0
• Available in OIM lab Room 7 of DKH
• Other software packages
• Java JDK
• Available free from Sun
• Command-line based
• Borland JBuilder Free from Borland (personal
  edition)
• All the above will do, but I only teach how to
  use Visual J.

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Other Software

• Web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer)
• To check your Java applet
• FTP program (e.g. WS_FTP)
• To upload your program to web site
• Telnet program (built-in in Windows)
• To change file properties

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Organization of Classes

• Lectures
• Labs (almost) every Wednesday
• Room 7 DKH
• Mid-term(s)
• In class
• Final
• In class

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Grading

• Break down
• Six homework assignments (5X6)
• Mid-terms and final (30X2)
• Attendance (10) seating chart
• Grades with and will be given
• Guarantee A for 90
• Curving only up

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Communicating With Professor/TA

• FAQ
• Discussion board
• Email
• Please do not email code to me or TA
• See me for program questions
• I welcome comments and suggestions any time

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Homework Assignments

• Will be submitted online
• Upload programs as part of a web page in your
  students.uiuc.edu account
• DO NOT store it in the public_html directory
• Create a sub directory under public_html to store
  it

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Penalty for Plagiarism

• Programs are too easy to copy, thus we have to be
  strict on plagiarism
• The first time one is caught, zero point is given
  to the assignment
• A second offense would entitle an F for the
  course
• Please do your own work
• You are welcome to ask questions to the professor
  or the TA

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Icebreaker

• Use your fingers to tell us
• Thumb your name
• Index finger where you are from
• Middle finger what you want to be
• Ring finger your No. 1 hobby
• Pinky a recent exciting moment

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On to HTML

• HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language
• It has tags to identify the elements of a page
  for the browser to render for the page for
  display
• Unlike a programming language such as C or
  Java, they cannot be compiled or executed
• HTML files are plain text files

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HyperText

• Hypertext refers to the ability to link to other
  documents from within one document
• Example http//www.uiuc.edu
• A site map is a reflection of the hypertext
  structure in a website
• (http//www.uiuc.edu/misc/sitemap.html)

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Introduction to Web Pages

• Viewing the source of a web page
• Every web page is a pure text file
• Copying designUsing existing pages as a
  template
• Naming .html or .htm extension file names
• Web pages (or HTML files) can be viewed locally
  via Internet Explorer or Netscape

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HTML tags

• General format lttag_namegtstring of text
  lt/tag_namegt Example ltBgtbold textlt/Bgt Single
  tags ltIMGgt
• ltHEADgt and ltBODYgt
• Comments lt!-- --gt
• Headers ltH1gt ltH2gt

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More Characteristics of HTML

• Tags are not case sensitive
• However, use a consistent style increases the
  readability of the document in source format
• Tags are usually in pairs, to signal the
  beginning and ending

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Example and Instructions

• A small example
• Instructions on uploading files to your student
  web server
• FTP tutorial