Prelude to Patterns in
Computer Science
Using Java

Beta Code Release
6-7-2000

Ed C. Epp

Table of Contents

• CD Instructions and Notes
• Chapter 1: Objects - Controlling a Robot Butler
• Chapter 2: Elements of Control - Controlling a Robot Butler
• Chapter 3: Inheriting Applets - Graphics Objects
• Chapter 4: User Interfaces - Gas Mileage
• Chapter 5: Numeric Computing - Chaos
• Chapter 6: Method Abstraction - Computer Animation
• Chapter 7: Class Abstraction - Object Animation
• Chapter 8: Selection Algorithms - Meshes
• Chapter 9: Iteration Algorithms - Graphing Stock Trends
• Chapter 10: Text Processing - Customizing a Story
• Chapter 11: List Algorithms - Locating Movie Reviews
• Chapter 12: Input / Output - Reading Movie Reviews and Stock Prices
• Chapter 13: Arrays - Traffic Simulation
• Chapter 14: Event Handling - Doodling
• Chapter 15: graphical User Interfaces - Projecting Wages
• Chapter 16: Inheritance - Persistent Stores for Graphics Objects
• Appendix A: HTML - A Web Page
• Appendix B: Java Class Reverence - Standard Classes
• Appendix C: Vista Reference - Custom Classes

Instructions and Notes

• This is a preliminary release of the software that supports Prelude to Patterns in Computer Science.
• Example applets can be executed with a Java aware web browser.  Just follow the links to the example.
• Each example is found in a folder named for the listing from the text.  For example, Listing 3.1 is found in the folder named "Listing0301".  
• Symantec Cafe (version 3.0) projects have been created for each example.  If you have Symantec Cafe, copy the folder to your hard drive, and double click on the *.vep file. 
• Source files are in Win32 ASCII format.
• Sun Java web page - free downloads - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/ Symantec Cafe was purchased by WebGain.  Follow the Sun web site and look for Visual Cafe.  Sun JDK tools, Borland JBuilder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, and other tools and documentation can also be found there.
• The examples in this book have been checked under various Java environments on Sun, Windows, and Macintosh platforms. However, software upgrades often fix and break a small subset of the examples.  
• The examples where created on a Mac under Metrowerks and moved to Symantec Cafe under Windows. Care was taken to assure that examples programs would work on Mac, Win 98/NT, and Unix. Everything except the Swing examples is working under Internet Explorer 5 (and 4.0). Netscape may have problems with the Butler examples from chapters 1 and 2.