Re: Entry level Java

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Howe <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> Greetings, I have been working on making jheatbugs more
Tim> understandable by amplifying the comments and by tightening up
Tim> the code, with the goal of making it a reasonable "first program"
Tim> for learning Swarm.

Tim> I have appended a sample file below
Tim> (HeatbugModelSwarm.java). Invoke "javadoc HeatbugModelSwarm.java"
Tim> and see what you get in HeatbugModelSwarm.html. I'll provide
Tim> more, as it all evolves, to anyone who would like a copy.

Tim> My documentation does assume that the reader has a general
Tim> understanding of Java. As for Java tutorials: Why not rely on the
Tim> tutorials provided by the Java community? Try
Tim> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/?frontpage-spotlight. Or
Tim> "Introduction to Java for C and C++ Programmers" at
Tim> http://www6.software.ibm.com/reg/java/ijcc++p-i.

Tim,

Would you be amenable to checking in your heatbugs code to CVS
repository on the Swarm sourceforge site
(http://sf.net/projects/swarm)?  It would be in an other "sister"
module to Charles Staelin's simple bug/tutorial Java
re-implementation.  It would allow easy distribution and be
maintainable by yourself (I will give you developer access) and SDG
folks.

It would be real start down the road of having a more grassroots
volunteer effort (since the SDG currently has no "sugar-daddy" to pay
for full-time Swarm developers) for hacking on Swarm code that I (and
other SDG members) were outlining at SwarmFest 2001 in April.

Thanks

Alex
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Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (ib.berkeley.edu) * +1 510 642-1233
    & Swarm Development Group, Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.swarm.org) 

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