The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Java For Earth Sciences 2012/2013
76636
Lecturer: Hila Mosheiff-Cahana
The Programming Instruction Unit
Email: hila.mo@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: 02-6586297
Remember to download and print accompanying
course pages!
Grading: 
- 100% - Final Test Grade.
Open books test.
- NOTE: In order to participate
in the final test, you must turn in at least two thirds of the home
exercises.
Exercises: 
- Weekly home exercises to
be submitted in pairs.
- At least 2/3 of
exercises must be submitted in order to be eligible for a course grade.
- You will be given a
serial number, exercises without this serial number, will not be accepted.
(If you did not get one, see me for your serial number).
- No late exercises will
be accepted.
Support: 
- Reception hour: Thursdays
13:45 – 14:30 at the computer farm, room 4.
- 2 Teaching Assistants
will be available on the lower floor of the
computer farm. See their schedule here.
Lessons:
- Thursdays 12:00-13:45 at
the Computer farm room 4.
- Lessons will be
conducted using accompanying course pages. Please download and print these
pages in PDF format or in
Microsoft word format. You must bring them to every lesson.
- The examples we will use
are located on the server in our course directory: t:\hila\java76636
Textbooks: 
- In Hebrew: "Java
5", Dr. Nurit Barak, Academon
- In English: "Java
How to Program", Deitel&Deitel, sixth
Edition, Prentice Hall , Link to book site: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_deitel_javahtp_6
On-Line
Resources: 
- There are online
resources in abundance for Java programming and technologies. One of the
major sites that provides Java resources belongs to SUN, the company that
developed Java. Click here to link to SUN's site: http://java.sun.com/.
- At the bottom right of
SUN's Java home page, there is a list of other resources.
Downloads:
- Course pages
- Course
syllabus + technical material about
working with NetBeans (Handed out at the first
lesson)
- NetBeans + JDK Can be downloaded here choose JDK 7u7 + NetBeans then chooses windows.
Backup: 
- It is highly recommended
to backup your individual work
- Please remember that
power breaks do happen and computers do hang up quite often... Therefore,
save your work frequently and not just when you leave the room or switch
to another application!
Link to the Computer Programming Instruction Unit
Good Luck!
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