APCS: AP Computer Science A @sfhs

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Bookmark apcs.mathorama.com and install The Java SDK (as of July 2015, the current version is Java SE Development Kit 8u51), Blue J and Eclipse The Podcast has some videos that focus on installing your software: Getting Started with BlueJ, Windows7 Installation. You make want to see the list of videos
Sign up at SoloLearn and take the free Java Tutorial at http://www.sololearn.com (Seems to work better in Firefox for me). You will get a certificate if you complete all 7 Java Modules. If you can't do all, do as many as you can.
Learn the Basics at www.learnJavaOnline.org (the first 7 tutorials: “Hello, World!”, “Variables and Types”, “Conditionals”, “Arrays”, “Loops”, “Functions”, and “Objects”)
If you are hungry for more, try the Intro Course at http://studio.code.org.

There will be a quiz on the first day of class based on the Java tutorials mentioned above.

Quotes

A programmer is sent to the grocery store with instructions to “buy butter and see whether they have eggs, if they do, then buy a dozen.” Returning with 12 butters, the programmer says, “they had eggs.”
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
You can't make a program without broken egos.
Q: Why did the programmer quit his job? A: Because he didn't get arrays.
Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
When Shakespeare asked, “To be, or not to be?,” he did not provide the answer. But computer science can! The answer is FF.
```
( '2B | !2B = FF' .. in binary '001001011 OR 110110100=11111111') 
```
Chuck Norris can delete the Recycling Bin.
When Chuck Norris throws exceptions, it’s across the room.
Have you heard about the new Cray super computer? It’s so fast, it executes an infinite loop in 6 seconds.