Java Course Resources

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Online Curriculum for Our Course:

• CS Awesome   

Downloads:

• Download BlueJ IDE
• Windows Users: Link for Downloading JDK

Learning Resources:

• Petroware example of Java Style Guide
• Swing link1: JavaTPoint
• Swing link2: Java2S
• Exceptions Problems
• How the JVM works (other good articles at end – great explanations – writing has some issues)
• PracticeIt!
• CodingBat: Practice Problems!
• Intro to Programming Using Java    (online textbook by David Eck)
• Incremental Java      (at Univ. of Maryland)
• BlueJ Tutorial
• Java Tutorials     (Oracle’s great set of tutorials, with questions and exercises)
• Java API’s
  
• Graphics Site comparing aspects of Windows, Components, Frames, etc.

AP PREP:

(Ignore any practice questions about GridWorld, Bugs, or Critters)

1. All old OPEN RESPONSE questions with samples and grading!
2. Understand recursive method calls (this site also has LOTS of other resources)
3. Find many more problems here: AP Central! 
4. CodeHS AP Review Site (recommended by the Computer Science Teachers Assoc. of America)
5. Video: all AP topics in 60 minutes (I’d skip to 40:00)
6. Big-O Notation: check each out, in the order below:
   • Video1
   • Video2
   • Video3
   • Presentation
   • Site with complete summary