Projects, Slides, & Videos

• Start Here: Get your software installed.
• There are tons of options so look carefully.

• 1- Download Java SE 8 SDK (JDK-8U51. Not demos/samples) for your machine.
• 2- Get Netbeans 8.02 (Java SE download 90MB in first column)
• Configure Netbeans like I did. I also changed the following & I will show these to you in class:
  • Color of comment text in the code so I could see it better
  • Turned off "Automatic Save" before running

• Learning to Program Video Series: Introduction to programming.

• New to programming? Then watch these videos on object-oriented programming.
• Getting Started Videos
  • 1. Introduction to Visual Studio  video
  • 2. Your first project:Working with controls video
  • 3. Modifying controls with Properties  video
  • 4. Naming your controls & making them respond video

• Lesson 1
  Introduction to Data Entry (Chapters 1-3, 15)

• Creating a JAVA GUI project with SWING Classes
  • Data Entry Part 1  Pages 459-482
  • Data Entry Part 2
    

• Properties p.472
• Strings p.46
• Data Types p.81
• Text Field p. 486
• Text Area p.503
• MsgBox p.486
• Event Handlers p. 474
• Set Focus  p. 481

• Lesson 2
  Data Entry Parts 3 & 4: Introduction to Variables & formatting strings

• Using variables, message boxes
  • JAVA Data Types (Chapter 3 p.81 in Murach)
  • Intro to Java Variables & type conversion
    
  • Data Entry Part 3
  • Data Entry Part 4
    

• Lesson 3
  Making Decisions  & Custom Event Handlers, & Loops (Chapter 4)

• Using Control Structures
• IF
  • If statements & logical operators

• Switch
  • Making decisions with switch
    (button short-cut keys & default form button)

• Loops
• Loops Demo
• For-Each Loops in VB & C# (in-class demo)
• Clear all textboxes on a form using For-Each loop: JAVA
  • Includes radio buttons to change color of JFrame

• Lesson 4
  Working with arrays & collections (Chapters 11 & 12)

• Introduction to Arrays & Collections
• Simple Array and InputDialog box demo
• Introduction to Arrays & Collections (Baseball app)
• Sorting Listboxes (enhanced for loop included)
• Running Totals & counting (How to add items & prices to a listbox)
  • Get Starter project here

• Lesson 5
  File I/O, Try-Catch, Custom methods (chapters 14 & 18)

• Introduction to File I/O & Structured Error Handling

• 1- Load List Box from a disk file (includes try-catch)
• 2- Part 2: Add new item, save listbox items, & fill listbox using textfile & "try-with-resources".