Lecturers: Dr F.H. King, Miss C.H. Northeast and Mr R.J. Stibbs
No. of lectures and practicals: 4 + 4
This course takes place on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before
the main lectures begin on the first Thursday of lecture term. This
course and the 16-lecture course
Foundations of Programming
together constitute a repeat of the Long Vacation course given in the
last two weeks of July to those intending to read Part II (General) of
the Computer Science Tripos.
Those who are able to attend the July run of the course are urged to
consider doing so. There is a much greater opportunity to gain
experience of programming and of using the Unix operating system in
the Long Vacation than is possible with the timetable pressures of the
Michaelmas Term.
Aims
The aim of this course is to provide sufficient information about the
Unix operating system and its local implementation on the Unix
Teaching Service to enable Java programs to be prepared and run.
Lectures
Introduction.
A practical introduction to programming in Java using Unix
and X-windows. Unix commands. X-windows.
Files and directories.
The Unix filing system and associated commands.
Elements of programming in Java.
Imperative programming. Compiling and running simple
Java programs. The Java Virtual Machine. Java classes,
data fields and methods. Method arguments and local variables.
Some Java constructs.
Loops, conditions and relational operators. Reserved words.
Arrays.
Objectives
At the end of the course students should:
have some familiarity with Unix and the Emacs editor
