CS 56   Advanced Java Programming

Development Tools

Software Development Kit

The CD-ROM in the back of our textbook contains the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.2 from Sun.  This is the version we will use for our course.

Java(TM) Technology Products & APIs - You can download the latest version of the Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) from Sun for free from this site and install it on your PC.  The latest version is Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.3.

Text Editors

A very good text editor that I like is WinEdit. You can download a trial copy from the Internet: WinEdit

You can download mpEDIT, a free, open-source text editor written in Java, from the following site:  mpEDIT. However, it is a little tricky to install and is a little buggy.

You can use Windows Notepad. Caution: Notepad may put a .txtextension on your filename. To prevent this either set  Save as type: to All Files (*.*) or enclose the filename in double quotes.

Reference

Java(TM) SE Platform Documentation from Sun's Java website has a wealth of official Java documentation.  In particular, the Java 2 SDK, SE v1.3 API documentation is my constant reference as I program in Java.
 
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