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Education
<p>I am working on rewriting a set of labs for our intermediate students at
SJSU. Version control is something that everyone with a CS degree is pretty
much expected to know these days. But instead of revising my old Subversion
lab, I decided to plunge into Mercurial. Of course, for team work, we need a server. I installed Mercurial onto a
donated Sun server running OpenSolaris and GlassFish. Installation was a bit
off the beaten track, so here are the directions.</p>
The next edition of my CS1/Java book is going to print soon. At the last minute, we decided to put the real estate of the inside covers to good use and include a “cheat sheet” with the most important Java control structures and libraries. Since it would be particularly embarrassing to have a typo here, I am hoping to enlist the aid of the community.
PDFs for the inside covers are...
The latest version of Alice, now in beta, can be programmed in Java. In this blog, I describe the process that I use for producing Alice assignments for my CS1 class. Students program in Java using Netbeans, and instead of seeing boring console output, they bring the Alice characters to life.
