Notices
The Computer Science office, course advisor, Head of Department and COMP160 lab are now all in the Owheo building. The Owheo building was part of the College of Education, and is on the corner of Union St East and Forth St. The COMP160 lab is on the ground floor at the rear of the Owheo Building's East wing (closest to harbour/College/Logan Park).
Working from home
Lab files are available by logging in to Blackboard and following the Course Documents link.
Your Computer Science Department Home Directory is not directly accessible from off campus. However there are ways to share files between home and the lab.
- You can email code to yourself.
- You can bring it in on a pen drive / memory stick / CD-ROM.
- You can store files for access off and on-campus using the ITS NetStorage link available at http://www.otago.ac.nz/its/students_/. Use your standard university log in (not your computer science department log in).
Text book Errata
The 6th edition of Lewis & Loftus may contain the following errors:
- page 66-7 Listing 2.5 This code will not compile as the variable is not declared. Should read:
int keys = 88; - page 90 - the keyword new is missing in the code listing:
Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in) - page 102 - the declarations need at least to read:
int MID = 150;
int TOP = 50;
and ideally MID and TOP would be replaced by mid and top throughout - page 410 - third paragraph - "The type" is obscured by the Key Concept box.
Otago University Links
Resources on the Web
- DrJava home page
- the Java tutorial from Sun
- the Sun Java home page
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years article by Peter Norvig
- Javaworld, for Java news and discussion
- Yahoo's Java page
- the Yahoo page on computer science
- the Yahoo page on programming
- the Yahoo Page on object-oriented programming
- computing jokes