Anyone for Java?

This introductory mini-course in Java will be conducted in room 107 of the Earth and Space Sciences building at SUNY Stony Brook on Wednesdays at 11 AM, March 5, 12, 19, and 26. Please email me, Glenn Richard if you are interested in attending. By the end of the course, I hope you will be self-sufficient and self confident enough in Java programming to be able to continue to imbibe Java knowledge from books, web documents, and other people's code. However, you are always welcome to come to me for information or to show me your latest programming concoctions. In fact, I am offering this course with the hope of initiating a Java programming culture within this building.

Java is a language that is used for developing interactive programs that can run on the World Wide Web. It was designed by Sun Microsystems, originally for programming appliances like toasters and coffee machines. However the name of the language has nothing to do with that. Back in the old days it was known as *7 (Star Seven). It went through several name changes after that, being called Green, and then Oak. It turned out that another language had already been named Oak, so a new name was desperately needed. Someone who was a regular visitor to a certain coffee shop in Palo Alto, California liked a saying that was tacked to the wall that read It's a jungle out there, so drink your Java!.

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Last modified May 14, 2002

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