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Putting Your Skills to Work Objectives

Use classes that act as a die or a calculator
Put together a sample game for a Web site
Animate an image background
Place images on the screen edges

Putting Your Skills to Work Topics

Responding to User Events
- Getting your programs to listen
- Setting up components to be heard
- Handling user events
- Workshop: A little lotto madness
Playing Games with Java
- Craps
- Organizing the program
- Creating a die class
- Testing the die class
Writing a Game for the Web
- Creating an applet
- Create variables to use
- Setting up variables and the initial display
- Displaying text and graphics
- Handling user input
- Checking roll results and keeping score
- Putting the program on a page
Spicing Up a Web Page
- The Pan applet
- Displaying the images
- Workshop: Drawing images over a screen's edge
Making Your Knowledge Add Up
- A calculating class
- Creating the interface
- Responding to user events
- Solving problems
- Trying out the program

Features:

Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
Exercises -- try it out
Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
Hotwords - See related information
Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

Technical Requirements

200MHz Pentium with 32MB Ram. 640 x 480 256-color video (800 x 600 is recommended). Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP. Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required. Minimum Connection Speed: 28.8k. Authorware recommended but not required. JavaScript must be enabled. Netscape and AOL browsers not supported.

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