Syllabus
Yes, I left this page in because I really didn't want to gut things more than I had already.
That being said, there isn't much here anymore!
Bottom line is, this is the core of a semester long class that I had developed but no longer teach. I didn't have it in me to just retire it, so I figured I'd post it for those who can use the help. There are no assignments, there isn't any online help, but hopefully the content may help somebody.
Prerequisites
I expect all students to have experience programming and to understand the basics of software design, debugging and data structures. I am also assuming some familiarity with C++ (or Java) since experience with a higher level language is a prerequisite for the course. However, since many people may enter the program without knowing Java, I am not assuming you know anything about Java. I also do not assume that you know anything about HTML, HTTP, Servlets or Java Server Pages. If you know neither C++ or Java, or it has been many years since you looked at them, you will want to carefully review the chapters that introduce basic Java syntax and object-oriented programming, and can expect to spend some extra effort compared to other students, especially on the few Java-related assignments. I also assume you can use a Web browser .
When you have completed the course, you will be able to
Okay, what a mess Oracle has made with Java licensing and support.
The server your code runs on is currently supporting the latest version of Java, however, anything after Java 8 is no longer publically available. You have two recommended Java options
You will need something to edit Java source code. You can use anything you want as we aren't teaching "how to use" a tool, and I can give some advice on alternate development environments. For many years, this classed used Netbeans, which was a well supported IDE. Once again, Oracle has sloughed off a product on Open Source, so Netbeans no longer has as much integration as it once did. That being the case, we will now use Eclipse as the "supported" IDE for the class.
Please note: You can use any editor/IDE you are comfortable with. However, if you don't use Eclipse, I can't help you with configuration or other IDE issues for other IDEs.
We will be using the Tomcat 10 web server. You don't need any special J2EE support, the standard Java SE environment you downloaded above will work fine.
You will eventually (by Module 10) need to install MySQL server and workbench on your system. Historically, we played with Derby as an embedded database, but I eventually decided it was best to just straight into MySQL.
You can get both from the MySQL web site (https://www.mysql.com). We want to use the community edition server (non-enterprise) which can be found at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql. You will want the MySQL Community Server download.
MySQL workbench can be found at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/. Download the version appropriate to your environment. Workbench is a fantastic tool to explore a database and to refine you queries before you include them into your code.