Held: Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Back to Outline 17 - Analyzing Algorithms. On to Outline 19 - Linear and Binary Search.

Summary

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

Related Pages

• Reading: None available
• Lab: Java from the Command Line
• EBoard 18 (Source 18) (HTML 18) (PDF 18)

Overview

• A brief overview.
• Ant and Maven.
• Lab.

Administrivia

• Reading for tomorrow: Linear and Binary Search in Java
• It sounds like the MathLAN problems have been diagnosed and, maybe, fixed.
• Cookies!
• No writeup for today's lab.
• No review session this week. I'm taking the middle school math team to their competition.
• I'll reserve a few minutes for discussion of the exam. Bring questions on Wednesday, too.
• Extra credit:
  • CS Extras: Technical Interviews
  • CS Table: Skip Lists
  • More?

Quick overview of command line issues

• Compile with javac
• Run with java
• Package with jar
• Make documentation with javadoc
• 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 and Maven files.
• Java programmers also set up reasonable directory structures.

Lab

• Do the lab