Held: Monday, 9 December 2013

Back to Outline 52 - Dynamic Programming. On to Outline 54 - Patterns of Object and Algorithm Design.

Summary

We step away from the IDE to see how to work with Java from the command line.

Related Pages

• Lab: Java on the Command Line
• Code: https://github.com/Grinnell-CSC297/command-line
• EBoard (Source) (HTML) (PDF)

Overview

• A brief overview.
• Ant.
• Lab.

Administrivia

• Study break 8-10 tonight, Smoothies! (May run out early.)
• Who has an OCS recommendation that I need to fill out?
  • EW, DG, JGS, ...
• I hope to distribute most of the exam tomorrow. (I'll probably leave the code until HW11 is turned in.)
• Upcoming extra credit opportunities:
  • CS Extra: Multiple Models of Mediascripting
  • CS Table Friday: TBD

Quick overview of command line issues

• Compile with javac
• Run with java
• Package with jar
• May need to set CLASSPATH to tell Java where to find things.

Ant

• You figure out the things you want to do. What next?
• C programmers build Makefiles.
• Java programmers build Ant files.
• Java programmers also set up reasonable directory structures.

Lab

• Do the lab