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General Information

Description

This study group is intended to give students the knowledge necessary to pass the latest Sun Java Certification exam. For more information on this exam, see http://suned.sun.com/usa/cert_test.html. This is not a course "per se" in that you do not register for it, and you are not assigned a grade. This is not a course officially provided by R.I.T. However, students that attend the meetings are expected to take the study group seriously, do the assigned work and attend every meeting.

Initiators

The idea for this course was that of Mark Roth and Paul Tymann. In the interest of not wanting to pay for the Java Certification exam just to fail it, we've decided to hold a study group that will cover all neccesary topics required to achieve a passing grade on the exam.

Instructor

The official instructor for this course is Paul Tymann. However, we keep students awake by having each of them teach at least one chapter in the book.

Email

If you have questions regarding this course, or would like to sign up for it, please contact either Mark Roth (markroth8@yahoo.com), or Paul Tymann (ptt@cs.rit.edu).

Text

The text used for this course is "Java 1.1 Certification Study Guide" - by Simon Roberts and Philip Heller. ISBN 0-7821-2069-5. This book may not be available in the bookstore, but is available through Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.com, among others. Students are required to purchase this book, or look along with others who have. This textbook has received excellent reviews and was written by one of the people responsible for writing the exam.

Meeting Place / Time

This course meets in the Small CS Conference Room in the Ross Building (Building 10) on Tuesday nights from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Syllabus

Planned Schedule

Each week, one or more students will present some topic in the course. Selected sample code and labs for each week will be available below. PowerPoint presentations are available for most covered labs. Click on the topic name to download the PowerPoint file in PowerPoint 97 format. Click on the name of a presenter to send them email.

Week	Read Chapters	Topic	Presenter	Labs/Sample Code
1		No Meeting
2		Introduction to Course Assignment of Topics	Paul Tymann Paul Tymann
3	1, 2, 5	Language Fundamentals Operators and Assignments Flow Control and Exceptions	Paul Tymann Paul Tymann Paul Tymann	Converter.java
4	3, 4, 6	Modifiers Converting and Casting Objects and Classes	Stephan Roorda Stephan Roorda Stephan Roorda	Lab 4 Inner-Class Lab
5	7	Threads	Paul Tymann	Lab 5 (Thanks, Seth)
6	9, 10	Components Layout Managers	Mark Roth Mark Roth	Lab 6
7	11, 12	Events Painting	Mark Roth Mark Roth	Lab 7
8	8	The java.lang Package	Seth Ladd
9	13, 14	Applets and HTML Input and Output	Shane Lathrop Brian Spinnato
10		What's New in JDK 1.2?	Entire Group

Students should read the assigned chapters and attend the class to participate in the presentation. Students should also complete any post labs assigned by the presenter.

Miscellaneous Topics

If time permits, the following topics will be covered:

Packages
Reflection
Java 2.0 (Formerly: JDK 1.2)

Differences
Highlights

Suggest Others

Preparing a Presentation

Presenters preparing their material to present should place emphasis on the following:

General yet complete coverage of the topic
Sample Code
Sample Exam Questions
Actively involve the class
Prepare a post lab, containing a sample project to be completed by all students by the next meeting.

Students in the class are expected to read the material in order to be adequately prepared, and complete the post lab assigned by the presenter by the next meeting.

Last Updated: February 1, 1999